Originally Posted by
jonkster
That it runs 24/7/365 worldwide with thousands of movements every hour with amazing safety and high reliability
I was thinking about that recently - I doubt there many were weeks in the 1970s without the newspapers reporting a fairly major passenger aircraft crash somewhere in the world. Air transport safety now is phenomenally good. I would never complain about a delay for safety reasons, particularly if removing debris from a runway is involved.
After all, a small piece of debris burst a tyre that bought down a Concorde.