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Old 25th Aug 2008, 01:11
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If you combined the Spanish and Kyrgyz incidents into one it would STILL barely make the list of 20 worst INDIVIDUAL aviation accidents:

100 worst aviation accidents

let alone weeks.

That assumes a total of 237 deaths for this week's two crashes (alllowing for possible further deaths among the badly injured - with luck an incorrect assumption!!)

Tenerife was a worse 60 seconds than TWO weeks worth of Madrid/Kyrgyzstan incidents.

But then, understanding statistics and the likeliness/relative size of events is one of the things the human mind does worst..otherwise no one would buy lottery tickets - and no one would be afraid to fly.
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