• FlowVoid@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    And yet you keep ignoring the fact that all forms of commercial aviation have an excellent safety record.

    That means that if you add up annual US fatalities in the small 2-4 passenger planes that you are irrationally worried about, plus slightly larger planes of 4-10 passengers that you are irrationally worried about, plus charter planes of 5-50 passengers, plus regional carriers, plus major airliners, plus any other air passengers you can imagine …

    … the grand total would be about ten deaths per year on average. All those different planes put together, still less dangerous than lightning.

    And now you want me to believe that this excellent multi-decade safety record would magically be upended by building more aircraft, even though we are already building more aircraft - of all types - and have been for decades.