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poor servicing/quality inspection on the P&W engines it seems.
 
I asked the captain how often these engines exploded mid-air. "Just the once" was his reply........
 
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But how many frames have hairline fractures, ready to rip open the next time it flies?
 
Whichever way you dress it up...Risk wise you are infinetly safer in a commercial aircraft than driving.
 
Odds of Death

DEATH BY: YOUR ODDS
  • Cardiovascular disease: 1 in 2
  • Smoking (by/before age 35): 1 in 600
  • Car trip, coast-to-coast: 1 in 14,000
  • Bicycle accident: 1 in 88,000
  • Tornado: 1 in 450,000
  • Train, coast-to-coast: 1 in 1,000,000
  • Lightning: 1 in 1.9 million
  • Bee sting: 1 in 5.5 million
  • U.S. commercial jet airline: 1 in 7 million
Sources: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley
Vastly more likely to die of that pie in your mouth.
 
Whichever way you dress it up...Risk wise you are infinetly (sic) safer in a commercial aircraft than driving.


Odds of Death

DEATH BY: YOUR ODDS
  • Cardiovascular disease: 1 in 2
  • Smoking (by/before age 35): 1 in 600
  • Car trip, coast-to-coast: 1 in 14,000
  • Bicycle accident: 1 in 88,000
  • Tornado: 1 in 450,000
  • Train, coast-to-coast: 1 in 1,000,000
  • Lightning: 1 in 1.9 million
  • Bee sting: 1 in 5.5 million
  • U.S. commercial jet airline: 1 in 7 million
Sources: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley
Vastly more likely to die of that pie in your mouth.

So 500 times more likely on those figures </pedant>
 
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