The so-called safety of air travel is an illusion. The statistics are derived as a function of total distance traversed rather than the number of trips. It is a meaningless metric. The truth is air travel is dangerous, wasteful, and ultimately an act of haste rather than deliberation. I am a proud non-flyer and will be for life. If you value your life, it would behoove you to heed this advice.
Even the insurance companies realize its a meme >Aviation industry insurers base their calculations on the deaths per journey statistic while the aviation industry itself generally uses the deaths per kilometre statistic in press releases.[14]
In b4 >muh car accident statistics These casualties include minorities. Average IQ of the population is 100 at best. You're dealing with soccer moms, retards, niggers, motorcyclists, and senile people comprising no small portion of the statistic. If statistics were this detailed and you looked at vehicular crash rates for 110 IQ + white men that do not drive drunk at all, nor text and drive, you would realize that it's remarkably safe, arguably safer in the hands of a qualified driver per trip than an fixed-wing aircraft. >muh boat/train is too slow Traveling is supposed to be an adventure. We live in an era of instant communication too. Meetings and such can be done over skype, so business is no excuse either.
Why risk your fucking life? You can get on a boat to almost anywhere these days. Cargo liners have room to spare. Passenger rides still exist to Europe and many vehicle ferry services allow you to stay on board. You can drive just about anywhere within a continent too.
Quick google search gave me a number of 18 million flights a year controlled by FAA so the actual number is much more. On wiki there is 24 flight incidents worldwide in 2018, some of them without fatalities. Do the math.
Ryder Miller
Traveling is a meme. There's no need to see the world. IT's not as fun as you may think.
I'm more afraid of staying in America and getting shot
Blake Young
The last time I browsed Jow Forums I was told that Jews promote globalism. The Nazis can't make up their mind.
Kayden Rogers
>Page 9
Does Jow Forums even have real users anymore outside /ptg/?
Julian Mitchell
Exponentially more people die from car accidents than plane crashes, in fact air travel is probably the safest transportation.
You mentioned driving yourself, well you have a higher chance of getting yourself killed on the road right now.
Landon Roberts
No. I’m currently getting my private pilots license. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to to do. You can’t make me. Nigger.
Lincoln Russell
Boomers and plebbit came here and refused to assimilate.
Daniel Thompson
truth
Jayden Moore
>don't look at deaths/kilometre >drive the same distance as a plane flight anyway ok
Adam Ramirez
Measuring the safety of a mode of transport based on the number of trips is fucktarded. If I want to go to London I have a much greater chance of dying in a car crash than a plane crash on the way there.
Of course if you measure going down to the shop a mile away as a "trip" the car comes out ahead, that's because I never exceed 80-90km/h and there's only two dangerous moments - when I pull out on the main street, and where that street crosses a major boulevard. I'd have to be mindblowingly retarded to crash and die.
If I have a 1 in 10,000,000 chance of crashing and dying per hazard event (intersection crossing, an overtake maneuver, a blind corner, lane switch, etc), I'd have to perform 2,500,000 trips to the local supermarket before reaching that chance. If I'm driving 1,000km with an average of 4 hazard events per km (and I'm being very generous), that number plummets to just 2500 "trips".
tl;dr: once you start driving at high speeds for longer distances the risks start stacking up - in a way that they don't for air travel, so comparing by "trip" is meaningless.
Jace Carter
>reaching that chance. I reworded the phrase and fucked it up - I meant reaching the point where on average I should statistically be dead.
Asher Jackson
>non-flyer for life No shit, you are a fucking american LOL
You know what is more dangerous than anything else? Eating american "food"
Gavin Wilson
People who use the phrase 'exponentially more' should not be making comments on anything to do with mathematics or statistics. However, you are right of course. Even the most careful driver can get T-boned to death by a drunk driver.
Liam Gomez
amtrak is way safer than airlines.
Owen Perez
>comparing flying to driving PER TRIP This is next level autism
Camden Reed
Obvious slide thread, but for completeness, pic related should provide the answer. Most crashes occur at take-off or landing therefore 'per trip' is the most useful metric in determining the risk of air travel.
I never been on a plane. I have on ferries though, and once on a gigantic hovercraft.
Ethan Fisher
The most dangerous part of air travel is not the distance traversed but take off and landing. It is intellectually dishonest to use a metric that skews the reality of the situation. You are low IQ.
Luis Scott
nah just don't fly on an aircraft maintained by fucking ethiopians
Gabriel Davis
Man like just tell me why i can't just live in an enchanted snow palace
Jose Anderson
Just don't fly on a plane with anybody in important roles in government and you should be fine
Brandon Gomez
>says aircraft isn't safer than driving moments later admits aircraft is safer than driving
Charles Jenkins
Go back to your corner with the flat-earth retards where you belong.
Camden Wilson
FPBP. Your chances of dying from flying are less than your chances of dying from automobile by a factor so large as to be approaching infinity.
Flying is almost infinitely safer than driving.
Bentley Lopez
>Plane crashes in some shithole country OH MY GAWD ITS ANUDDA SHOAH!!!
Parker Wilson
>The statistics are derived as a function of total distance traversed rather than the number of trips.
Well of course.
If I have to go from NY to LA, I want to know what the safety is figured per mile traveled. I don't give a rat's ass how that compares to one trip to the grocery store in my car.
Noah Sanchez
Brazilians eat more corn-based garbage than Americans
Leo Watson
Cope.
Christian Baker
Yeah, costs as much or more than air travel, and takes weeks instead of hours. Sounds like a great plan.
Jaxson Butler
we actually have GMO warnings on our food The tide is turning quick...people are going back to peach palm, cassava, sweet potato.
Furthermore, our current government is forcing companies to cut sugar in food by 60%
David Mitchell
>7/10 plane crashes are targeted killings
John Watson
You people are so fucking retarded its a stretch to even call you human beings. Magnitudes more people travel by car every day than by plane which artificially inflates flight safety statistics. Of course more people die in car accidents because a shitload more people are driving a car at any one time but in reality you are FAR more likely to survive a car accident whereas your chances of surviving a plane crash are practically zero. Think it through for once.
That's Ethiopian airlines for you, people fly for living
Kayden Ortiz
If we had high speed trains across the entire country I'd take those exclusively. But since I don't have time to drive that far, I have to fly. its not fun, but a 4-5 hour flight is better than a 4 day journey.
Carson Reed
can someone tell me WHO OR WHAT was on this plane and why are they trying to distraction my attention TO the plane maker
Just don't fly in third world countries and you'll be fine
Ethan Bennett
They employee white pilots in third world countries usually. The EEOC and affirmative action in the US mandates black pilots be accepted regardless of competency. It's even more dangerous.
Connor Gray
At least large airlines flying plains that cost nearly 100 million USD. When it comes to old soviet shit they're flying, yes, non-white pilots.
Jackson Russell
Are you seriously so retarded that you don't understand what a per-passengerkm statistic is?
Nolan Long
Airplanes in Africa are a meme
Mason Morris
Are you so seriously retarded to not see that most plane crashes happen around take off and landing which makes the distance traversed a nonentity?
Gabriel Mitchell
This is the Queen Mary II. The last true passenger ship of the Atlantic Ocean. New York to It can cross the Atlantic in about a week. You're looking at between $600-800 for the lowest cost ticket, which isn't bad all things considered. This is very appealing for non-flyers like myself.
I watched a Russian cargo plane hit a mountain once. Huge fireball. Old soviet pilots flew a tad bit too low and kaboom.
William Hernandez
see Measuring "per trip" crashes makes no sense.
Isaiah Brooks
This has already been addressed and shown wrong. You're a brainlet and act like a redditor with your use of "tl;dr" and self-inflated view whatever the hell it is you write.
