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Nik Bethune said:...I don't have numbers supporting that but, I mean, it really feels like it's not a good way to travel.
https://fortune.com/2017/07/20/are-airplanes-safer-than-cars/ said:...Americans have a 1 in 114 chance of dying in a car crash, according to the National Safety Council. The odds of dying in air and space transport incidents, which include private flights and air taxis, are 1 in 9,821. That?s almost three times better chances than you meeting your fate by choking on food.
Nik Bethune said:A lot of unconfirmed stuff going around social media that seems to be debunked a few minutes later. Maybe best not to lean too heavily into any of it.
Nik Bethune said:Really weird to be watching this Raptors game. You can tell the players are pretty wrecked. You've got people crying in the stands...kind of feels like this shouldn't be happening.
L K said:Nik Bethune said:Really weird to be watching this Raptors game. You can tell the players are pretty wrecked. You've got people crying in the stands...kind of feels like this shouldn't be happening.
I kind of liked the discussion that Rautins and Devlin had though. Kobe?s reputation was mamba mentality and being forced to be dragged off the court. A tough game to play but going out and playing through the pain might be the best way to honour him.
Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Josh Rubenstein said the department?s Air Support Division grounded its helicopters Sunday morning because of foggy conditions and didn?t fly until the afternoon.
?The weather situation did not meet our minimum standards for flying,? Rubenstein said.
Kurt Deetz, a former pilot for Island Express Helicopters who used to fly Bryant in the chopper, said weather conditions were poor in Van Nuys on Sunday morning ? ?not good at all.?
The crash was more likely caused by bad weather than engine or mechanical issues, he said. ?The likelihood of a catastrophic twin engine failure on that aircraft ? it just doesn?t happen,? he said.
princedpw said:It is a shame we don?t understand human psychology well enough to generate this kind of emotion for the thousands who die from malaria or who wish to flee from war or violence or for the many other preventable causes of death and suffering.
Pretty devastating news. I took some helicopter training when I was young and even though the technology is way better on the machines than 40 years ago, they are still incredible dangerous aircraft compared to fixed wing. According to the latest information they were flying in foggy conditions, they shouldn't have been flying in those conditions.Hobbes said:Nik Bethune said:...I don't have numbers supporting that but, I mean, it really feels like it's not a good way to travel.
When it comes to air travel you're correct. I can't find much in the way of any recent stats for USA but a "Fortune" piece from a few years ago said that for the USA:
https://fortune.com/2017/07/20/are-airplanes-safer-than-cars/ said:...Americans have a 1 in 114 chance of dying in a car crash, according to the National Safety Council. The odds of dying in air and space transport incidents, which include private flights and air taxis, are 1 in 9,821. That?s almost three times better chances than you meeting your fate by choking on food.
Ya pretty much the same "get-there-itis" that killed JFK Jr and his wife and her sister. A Limo ride may have taken a bit longer but they may have still been here.TML fan said:Sounds like pilot error with a case of "get-there-itis" thrown in.