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Do you know anyone that is still afraid of flying commercial at this late date?
Posted on 4/21/21 at 12:17 am
Posted on 4/21/21 at 12:17 am
If so, they stupid:
Yup. Stoopid.
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For the older baws like me - list of accidents by year. Crashes all the damn time.
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Over the past 12 years, U.S. airlines have accomplished an astonishing feat: carrying more than eight billion passengers without a fatal crash.
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In 1996, before the safety reboot began, U.S. carriers had a fatal accident rate of roughly one crash for every two million departures. That year alone, more than 350 people died in domestic airline accidents, including 230 in the infamous fuel-tank explosion on TWA Flight 800 that sucked scores of passengers out of the fractured fuselage. Within 10 years, the fatal accident rate had been reduced by more than 80%, beating a goal set by a White House commission.
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Today’s travelers are benefiting from another decade-plus of improved safety for U.S. carriers, and the fatality rate has been driven down to one for every 120 million departures. (The single passenger death in the past dozen years was from an engine fan blade coming apart during a 2018 flight.) Yet neither the scope nor the significance of the underlying changes, expanded year after year with little fanfare, is generally recognized by the flying public.
Yup. Stoopid.
LINK
For the older baws like me - list of accidents by year. Crashes all the damn time.
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Posted on 4/21/21 at 12:23 am to Big Scrub TX
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Over the past 12 years, U.S. airlines have accomplished an astonishing feat: carrying more than eight billion passengers without a fatal crash.
I mean come on .. This is like saying a placekicker hasn't missed one all year during a big game.. Just not kosher man..
This post was edited on 4/21/21 at 12:24 am
Posted on 4/21/21 at 12:25 am to Big Scrub TX
Do the non-fatal incidents in that list sound fun to you?
Posted on 4/21/21 at 12:28 am to Big Scrub TX
What’s really amazing is the last two major fatal crashes were by shite regional carriers and there hasn’t been a fatal mainline carrier crash since November 2001 with AA 587.
That’s 20 years of no fatal crashes for major carriers.
The last two fatal crashes were Colgan (Continental Express) 3407 in Buffalo in 2009 and Comair (Delta Connection) 5191 in Lexington in 2006.
That’s 20 years of no fatal crashes for major carriers.
The last two fatal crashes were Colgan (Continental Express) 3407 in Buffalo in 2009 and Comair (Delta Connection) 5191 in Lexington in 2006.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 12:34 am to PowerTool
quote:Yes, very.
Do the non-fatal incidents in that list sound fun to you?
Posted on 4/21/21 at 12:36 am to The Boat
quote:That's the one that always gets me. When they describe what happened "well, it was wind shear on the tail fin", it makes me think like "well why doesn't that happen ALL THE DAMNED TIME?".
November 2001 with AA 587.
quote:That shite was scary. It was such a straight-line freefall that it crashed into a neighborhood and only HIT ONE HOUSE.
3407 in Buffalo in 2009
Posted on 4/21/21 at 12:52 am to Big Scrub TX
We almost had 155 more if Capt Sully hadn't been able to land in the Hudson.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 12:52 am to Big Scrub TX
Posted on 4/21/21 at 1:00 am to Usual Suspect
I would argue the single greatest troll job in the history of the art. 
Posted on 4/21/21 at 1:04 am to Big Scrub TX
YEEPPPPPPP ! NEVER ! Scared to ever get on a helicopter or plane.
K M A !
K M A !
Posted on 4/21/21 at 1:14 am to Big Scrub TX
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Do you know anyone that is still afraid of flying commercial at this late date?
Don’t you know we’re in a global pandemic?
Posted on 4/21/21 at 1:16 am to Big Scrub TX
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That shite was scary. It was such a straight-line freefall that it crashed into a neighborhood and only HIT ONE HOUSE.
I remember this one. Didn't they neglect to de-ice the plane which ultimately led to the freefall?
Posted on 4/21/21 at 1:46 am to harmonics
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I remember this one. Didn't they neglect to de-ice the plane which ultimately led to the freefall?
The plane was on final approach and getting dangerously slow. The aircraft stall warning activated, the captain freaked out and pulled back on the controls (opposite of what to do in a stall) which caused the plane to enter a more severe stall, then the first officer retracted the flaps which made an already bad situation worse and the plane was basically unrecoverable at that point and altitude and fell out of the sky.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 4:56 am to Big Scrub TX
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down, he thought
"Well, isn't this nice?"
And isn't it ironic, don't you think?
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down, he thought
"Well, isn't this nice?"
And isn't it ironic, don't you think?
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:12 am to Big Scrub TX
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If so, they stupid
A phobia doesn’t tend to have logic tied to it.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 5:24 am to Big Scrub TX
Not sure why I or anyone else would care if another person is scared of flying or not. It's not my business how they prefer to travel and this OP sounds like bitching just to bitch for no good reason
Posted on 4/21/21 at 6:38 am to Big Scrub TX
I've flown three times before but I'm hesitant. Call me stupid.
My grandfather and most of his side of the family was on Pan Am Flight 759 that crashed in Kenner. They were going to his brother's funeral in San Diego. This flight was a big reason they put wind shear protection in planes.
My grandfather and most of his side of the family was on Pan Am Flight 759 that crashed in Kenner. They were going to his brother's funeral in San Diego. This flight was a big reason they put wind shear protection in planes.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 7:08 am to Big Scrub TX
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That's the one that always gets me. When they describe what happened "well, it was wind shear on the tail fin", it makes me think like "well why doesn't that happen ALL THE DAMNED TIME?".
We learned a lot from that crash and now know better how to spot wind shear risk conditions and how to react to them.
Posted on 4/21/21 at 10:34 am to harmonics
quote:Yep. And also female pilot.
Didn't they neglect to de-ice the plane which ultimately led to the freefall?
Posted on 4/21/21 at 10:36 am to Big Scrub TX
I always carry my own parachute, so I'm cool.
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