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Old 10th Aug 2003, 11:31
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tobzalp
 
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.......... Nother Aussie wet dream.. Facts please, the average number of US midairs is less than 20, mostly light private aircraft (some balloons), with a survival rate of around 50%. Risk of collission is an exponential probability....example for simple pilot mentality: when you land at twice the speed, you use more than twice the runway.
Annual accidental death statistics in the US:
machinery 350
firearms 1500
suffocations 3300
fires and burns 3700
drownings 4000
poisonings 8600
falls 14900
car wrecks 43200
So you all now.....untighten your butts and acknowledge NOT really an issue!! ....

lovely stats. How sill of me to think that as long as there are not as many deaths as car crashes then it must be ok. Looking at that we should think up a phrase to describe this theory. I know. We can call it AFFORDABLE SAFETY. (Plazbot runs off into the woods with the fairies... la la la llala lalala lala)




p.s. winstun = smith?
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