Comment on Flying used to be this magical, miraculous thing!
Funkytom467@lemmy.world 9 months agoDoes 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.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months 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.
Funkytom467@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Same 70’s era flying sounds nice, less like packing people into sardine cans