It started with an assertion that if you have 4 engines, an engine failure is twice as likely as with 2-engines; and so on. Amusing up to a point, but rubbish.
I was boarding a flight from Sydney to Los Angeles a few years ago, when a fellow traveller stowing her overhead luggage, announced to all around that she had once survived a fatal plane crash therefore we were all safe a statistically, it was virtually impossible that she would be involved in another one!
This seemed to give great comfort to the person sitting next to me, a nervous flyer, and I didn't have the heart to tell him that chances of the plane crashing was exactly the same, whether this woman was on board or not!
