Comment on Flying used to be this magical, miraculous thing!

• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t. Every change in FAA safety regulations since then has been paid for in blood. The fatality rate per 100,000 flight hours was about 5x higher in 1970.

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People are quick to forget about this. Everyone ought to read more by Admiral Cloudberg.

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  • Funkytom467@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Does 5x higher means it’s much? Because today’s plan is the safest way to travel.

    So would multiplying the risk by 5 make it more unsafe than cars for example?

    Because we do use cars a lot, more than we should, just because we like it. And the fatality rate is pretty high.

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    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think I actually understated how much more dangerous it was then because the chart I was looking at stopped a couple of decades ago. I found a more recent study and it’s more like 1 death per 7.9 million boardings currently, versus 1 death per 350,000 boardings (!) from 1968-1977.

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      • Funkytom467@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nice, i’m not surprised but it’s still hella impressive. Aeronautics is truly outstanding engineering nowadays.

        Still i think i would definitively take the risk to try a 70’ plane once, for the experience. Like i said it would probably be way safer than regularly using a car. But i get your point, it really was different back then.

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• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I simply of to point out that you of used the wrong word there. You of to realise that doing so can of the effect have making you look very ignorant

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank you for helping.

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can’t stop me! I’ll say Semail as much as I want!

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    • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As in “I have five unread emails”?

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      • Karlos_Cantana@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        TIFIFY- "I have five unread semails".

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  • Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This feels like accent shaming. You coulda been nicer.

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• Xariphon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  could have*

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  wakes up on a plane heading for the world trade center

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