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Air travel is exceptionally safe, but it falls prey to the law of large numbers: 99.9% success still means some people die every year 99.9% success would mean
by gizzlon 13y ago
Air travel is exceptionally safe, but it falls prey to the law of large numbers: 99.9% success still means some people die every year
99.9% success would mean ~475 plane crashes during take-off and landing on Heathrow alone each day =)
- gizzlon 13y agoWait, that can't be correct, can it? :) Was going off this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_busiest_airports_by_aircraft_movements http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_busiest_airports_by_a... Edit: Silly me, the stats are by year not by day as I was expecting. Guess it means only ~1.3 crashes at Heathrow each day
- protothomas 13y agoI doubt there are 475000 take-off and landings per day from Heathrow despite how busy it is!