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Yet another blow to the confidence of flying in this country.
by xyst 7mo ago
Yet another blow to the confidence of flying in this country.
- trvz 7mo agoMore accurately, the risk has increased by at least one order of magnitude, but the confidence of the public has largely stayed the same.
- itsmek 7mo agoSource for the risk going up by 10x? Wild claim
- calf 7mo agoThis comes to mind how during the Boeing news scandals, commenters would confidently argue "Flying is still ridiculously safe, statistically speaking", "these things happen every day, just underreported", and "you/people are irrational for not flying Boeing". It's a very curious argument to me. Is the ATC infrastructure issue analogous or not, etc.
- actionfromafar 7mo agoIt is strange. What is importa t is, are things getting better or getting worse? As they say, it’s not the fall that kills, bit the impact. Are we falling?
- kakacik 7mo agoMaybe US media, hardly an unbiased news source about US events, especially when hundreds of billions are flying around about incompetent massive employer and lobbyist. Nowhere else in the world you would hear such statements. Boeings simply disappeared from Europe, those few that were here before. I am sure they are still used somewhere but I haven't flown any in past 7-8 years. Heck, I haven't seen any in South east Asia neither (but that may be due to luck). I check this with all bookings, no way I am flying that piece of shit if I can anyhow avoid that, not alone and quadruple that with family.
- krisoft 7mo ago> Boeings simply disappeared from Europe That is just simply false. There are many boeings flying in europe. Just by randomly clicking around on flightradar24 I found multiple right now in the air.
- patrickmcnamara 7mo agoRyanair are the biggest airline in Europe and they exclusively fly Boeing 737s.
- LaffertyDev 7mo agoYou can view the actual data and control for your own recency bias one way or the other. I see data from 2005 - 2024 trivially accessible. https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/Pages/research.aspx https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/Pages/research.aspx
- mememememememo 7mo agoYou can have both. I.e. complain about safety breaches, push to get back on track safety wise, but still decide to fly as it is safe enough. Guess it is being practical.
- heraldgeezer 7mo agoGrok how many people die on their commute to work in their deathtrap cars Grok timed out but here is perplexity Per 100 million miles traveled Car driving: ~0.57 deaths per 100 million miles (recent U.S. data). Commercial air travel: ~0.003 deaths per 100 million miles. This means driving has roughly 190 times the fatality rate per mile as commercial flying in the U.S. umm u should never drive again. in fact never leave your apartment/house.
- ErroneousBosh 7mo agoYou're not going to die in a car crash. You're going to die of heart disease caused by your poor diet. You should never eat again. No, wait, stop, I mean...
- heraldgeezer 7mo agoI mean thats my diet irl ;)