To: malamute
Statistically speaking, airplane travel is far safer than automobile travel. Over 50,000 Americans die every year on the nation’s roads and highways and many times that many are involved in accidents. Yet the rare plane crash continues to draw the big headlines.
3 posted on
05/05/2007 2:54:38 AM PDT by
SamAdams76
(I am 77 days away from outliving Curt Hennig (whoever he is))
To: SamAdams76
Statistically speaking, airplane travel is far safer than automobile travel. Over 50,000 Americans die every year on the nation’s roads and highways and many times that many are involved in accidents. Yet the rare plane crash continues to draw the big headlines. Fascination usurps statistics when driven by MSM directive.
5 posted on
05/05/2007 3:20:20 AM PDT by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: SamAdams76
"Yet the rare plane crash continues to draw the big headlines."
True enough. However, if you segregate the experience of the third world airlines particularly the sub saharan ones, the picture alters a lot.
There is so much corruption there that maintenance reports, spares, mechanics are all highly suspect.
10 posted on
05/05/2007 4:26:07 AM PDT by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: SamAdams76
Statistically speaking, airplane travel is far safer than automobile travel. Over 50,000 Americans die every year on the nation’s roads and highways and many times that many are involved in accidents. Yet the rare plane crash continues to draw the big headlines. Incidents that kill 100+ people AT ONCE usually do draw headlines, as they should.
28 posted on
05/05/2007 7:37:38 PM PDT by
Jorge
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