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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 5 months agoYeah, it would have been a completely horrifying and infuriating way to die, especially for the pilots who probably had a pretty good idea of what was happening but just never got told how to deal with it
Also, it just blows me away, the corporation as a whole got charged with felony fraud, fraud which caused the deaths of hundreds of people, and they still just get to be a company after saying sorry and paying a little fine. Like, when Fuckup Beauregard III decides to rob his local gas station with an unloaded gun and the clerk dies of a heart attack (or when his accomplice Cletus gets shot and killed by a responding police officer), the felony murder rule will kick in for him and say “someone dying as a result of your felonious behavior is legally equivalent to you intentionally murdering them,” but that sort of thing just doesn’t ever happen to rich and powerful people.
Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is why I refuse to fly. Just scandal and improper training and maintenance. It’s fucking dangerous.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s not yet more dangerous than most other modes of travel.
It’s just more dangerous than it needs to be thanks to capitalist “innovation”.
sxan@midwest.social 5 months ago
I know a (retired) guy who used to be an engineer designing commercial airliners. He, too, categorically refused to fly.
Makes ya think.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Part of it could just be the survivability. A lot of people get REALLY turned off of ideas if the result can be terrible death, even to the point of having something like a phobia of risk in general. Like some won’t ride a motorcycle even if it’s just down the street once.
Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Maybe it’s a phobia for me. I know, statistically, it’s the safest way to travel. But I hate having no control over my fate. Plane improperly maintained causes the flight I’m on to crash into the mountains? No thanks. I know it’s extremely irrational but it is still terrifying to me.
Shapillon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wouldn’t it technically be a phobia of danger rather than risk?