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Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 10 months ago by Womble@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Because Boeing were on such a good streak already...

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

45,000 commercial flights a day in the U.S. 35 deaths in the last 10 years. Thats about 164 million flights.

~115 people dying by car daily, and those numbers have been rising every year...

If planes get their kill ratio up high enough people will stop caring and start saying it is expected/needed.

Clearly more plane crashes are the answer.

[–] porcariasagrada@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

how many car trips per day in the us? must be billions. deaths per mile* per traveler should be the metric, not number of trips.

ps: safest method of transportation is the elevator.

edit:*mile traveled

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Elevators don't travel any distance so if anyone is hurt by one they immediately lose by your metrics

[–] porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

are you 100% sure that elevators don't travel any distance? or are we going to argue semantics over what distance is or isn't.

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just throwing this out - do we include the altitude the plane climbs in its distance traveled?

[–] porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

sure. why the hell not? lets go nuts on these data points.

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[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You would need to keep track of how high airplanes fly if you did argue semantics

[–] porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 months ago

in three dimensions you have three axis. all of those measure distance traveled from 0.