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authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks agoonly if you count general aviation, commercial airlines crash less than once a month. OP is clearly just an agent of Big Blimp trying to destroy the reputation of the honorable aviation industry
shottymcb@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
A lot less if you’re only counting advanced democracies. The last multi-casualty commercial plane crash in the US was in 2009, 15 years ago. I only make that multi-casualty caveat because otherwise you get weird one offs like a guy running into a landing strip and getting run over.
Even the one in 2009 was a fairly small propeller plane.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Let’s be honest. The airline disaster in recent history was when a door fell off and literally no one died.
Even the worst most unsafe aircraft are pretty reliable
Eccitaze@yiffit.net 5 weeks ago
It’s amazing what proper regulations that are designed to prioritize safety over profit can accomplish, and how quickly stark examples of the dangers start happening when those regulations are sidestepped or dismantled…