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Old 19th Apr 2016, 13:23
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G0ULI
 
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Humans are particularly bad at assessing probabilities and risks. It is an absolute certainty that at some stage in the future a fully laden A380 (or similar large passenger aircraft) will crash with massive loss of life. In fact the odds are far higher than an aircraft colliding with a drone, or said drone being the initiator of the crash.

Do we ban passenger transport on large jets? Of course not.

The fact is, we take a calculated risk every time we step aboard an aircraft or any other vehicle. The chances of being killed in a collision on the way to an airport are far higher than being killed aboard an airliner, but people are still prepared to drive.

At the moment the record stands at airliners 1, drones 0. That is a one hundred percent success rate in favour of the larger aircraft. There is absolutely no supporting evidence the other way, although there is a calculable, non zero, probability that a drone could potentially damage an airliner so as to cause a crash.

Better to worry about things that matter like looking both ways before crossing the road.
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