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[–] remon@ani.social 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I was always told that airplanes were statistically safer than cars.

Commercial airliners. It's a very different story for smaller planes. And helicopters are death traps!

[–] Zink@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have the perfect story for this.

About a decade ago I attended a week-long reliability training held by ASQ (the American Society for Quality). One day heading back to my hotel room I shared an elevator with the then-president-chairman of ASQ.

He was chatting about airliner safety, and how the engineers would do things like test/measure/calculate to find the necessary thickness of a part, and then just triple it for safety because they could. He said he'd never hesitate to ride a commercial airliner.

He then said he would never ride in a helicopter as long as he lived, lol.

Honestly the only helicopters I'd trust are VTOLs that lean more toward the plain side of things, mostly because then they can glide and don't just rush towards the ground.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was just reading a story about some sky divers who died in a plane crash shortly after launch.

It said the non commercial airliner stuff isn't held to the same regulatory standards, and these smaller outfits often fudge or push safety things off and whatever state / agency it was said it couldn't say these types of services offering flights are safe because of it.