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To: Morgana

Again, do people still repeat the old phrase “You know, you’re actually in more danger driving from home to the airport than you are flying. Flying is statistically safer.”

The late humor author Lewis Grizzard was afraid of flying. He pointed out the Wright Brothers started human powered flight and “did you notice not soon after was the first fatality from a plane crash?”
US Army Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge, who died was killed while flying on a demonstration flight with Orville Wright in 1908.

Note: Selfridge Air National Guard base in Michigan near where I grew up, formerly an Air Force base and earlier simply Selfridge Field.


11 posted on 03/13/2025 8:19:54 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

“ “You know, you’re actually in more danger driving from home to the airport than you are flying”

That’s 100% true.
I’m fine once I’m in the seat of the plane


12 posted on 03/13/2025 8:23:49 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don’t really care, Margaret.”)
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