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Old 1st April 2012 | 19:01
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Machinbird
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Continuing this way, with 99.99966% free of defects, it means 3.4 / 1 000 000 defects.
For 4 minutes crash, you have 19 608 hours safe (in his whole life, PJ2 has flown around 20 000 hours)
For 1 minute crash, 4 902 hours are safe...
Fortunately, due to redundancy concepts, we can have small failures and not have an accident. Our actual airline accident rate on an hourly basis is far better than 6 sigma. (For most airlines at least)

Compare that with the overall Navy accident rate during most of my career--3.5 to 2.5 accidents per 10,000 flight hours. Makes one wonder if you will personally get involved in the statistics during your career. Then add combat hazards to that.
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