Most Dangerous Job, Pilots ranked 3rd.
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They are obviously talking about GA pilots flying around in clapped out buckets of puss in crappy weather at night with navaids that only sort of work, and no GPS because the owner of said aircraft thinks they are too expensive and totally unnecessary(takes a breath). And flying into unsealed, unfenced, potholed, storm rutted airstrips frequented by cattle, pigs, roos, horses and rednecks driving trucks, utes and motorbickes etc.
All of the above done with a hangover because you got pissed the night before due to cellibrating the fact that you survived the previous days flying.
I feel much better now.
All of the above done with a hangover because you got pissed the night before due to cellibrating the fact that you survived the previous days flying.
I feel much better now.
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Since these stats refer to 1995, I thought I would see if the NTSB/FAA had any detailed analysis. Unfortunately, although their daily bulletins differentiate between crew and pax, I have yet to find this detail for 1995.
However, using their classification, there appear to be 5 fatal accidents for "commercial" aircraft, involving 171 fatalities, and 412 fatal accidents for GA, involving 727 fatalities. If one assumes that an "occupation" is paid work, I don't know where the 111 figure came from.
Any "professional" statisticians out there?
However, using their classification, there appear to be 5 fatal accidents for "commercial" aircraft, involving 171 fatalities, and 412 fatal accidents for GA, involving 727 fatalities. If one assumes that an "occupation" is paid work, I don't know where the 111 figure came from.
Any "professional" statisticians out there?
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You think flying is dangerous, Just watch out for those tea cosies!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=005.../7/nacc07.html
The danger that lurks on your kitchen table
By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent
READING this story is more likely to damage your health than using a chainsaw, according to a Government report that also warns of an alarming increase in the number of accidents caused by tea cosies, place mats and socks.
If you are also wearing wellington boots while holding a loofah and standing near a birdbath, then the chances of even finishing this sentence uninjured are worryingly small. The latest report from the Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance System, published by the Department of Trade and Industry, reveals that in 1999 leaves, birdbaths and sponges and loofahs posed far more of a menace to health than rat poison or meat cleavers.
Printed publications injured far more people than chainsaws - 4,371 compared with 1,207 - while tea cosy injuries almost doubled in 1999, up from 20 in the previous year to 37. However, the report gives no details of how these apparently innocuous household items managed to hurt people admitted to hospital.
The frightening scale of the menace posed by wellington boots (5,615 injuries) and sponges and loofahs (966) becomes clear when the same report reveals that meat cleavers caused 329 injuries in the same period and 439 people were harmed by rat or mouse poison.
The report, compiled by logging the accidents reported by people admitted to a sample group of hospitals and then extrapolating estimates for the whole country, found that the number of people going to hospital after a trouser accident is worryingly high. In 1999, trousers caused 5,945 accidents, 808 more than in 1998.
The trend was balanced only by the drop in injuries inflicted by armchairs, down from 18,690 to 16,662. Nevertheless, armchair injuries "leave little room for complacency", New Scientist says today, adding that injuries inflicted by vegetables "remain unacceptably high" at 13,132. Hospital admissions caused by socks and tights rose from 9,843 to 10,773, while birdbath accidents almost trebled to 311.
Roger Vincent, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: "We never cease to be amazed by the way in which people manage to injure themselves, but it remains the case that home accidents are still the major cause of injuries in this country. Nearly three million people are injured in the home every year and 4,000 of them die."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=005.../7/nacc07.html
The danger that lurks on your kitchen table
By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent
READING this story is more likely to damage your health than using a chainsaw, according to a Government report that also warns of an alarming increase in the number of accidents caused by tea cosies, place mats and socks.
If you are also wearing wellington boots while holding a loofah and standing near a birdbath, then the chances of even finishing this sentence uninjured are worryingly small. The latest report from the Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance System, published by the Department of Trade and Industry, reveals that in 1999 leaves, birdbaths and sponges and loofahs posed far more of a menace to health than rat poison or meat cleavers.
Printed publications injured far more people than chainsaws - 4,371 compared with 1,207 - while tea cosy injuries almost doubled in 1999, up from 20 in the previous year to 37. However, the report gives no details of how these apparently innocuous household items managed to hurt people admitted to hospital.
The frightening scale of the menace posed by wellington boots (5,615 injuries) and sponges and loofahs (966) becomes clear when the same report reveals that meat cleavers caused 329 injuries in the same period and 439 people were harmed by rat or mouse poison.
The report, compiled by logging the accidents reported by people admitted to a sample group of hospitals and then extrapolating estimates for the whole country, found that the number of people going to hospital after a trouser accident is worryingly high. In 1999, trousers caused 5,945 accidents, 808 more than in 1998.
The trend was balanced only by the drop in injuries inflicted by armchairs, down from 18,690 to 16,662. Nevertheless, armchair injuries "leave little room for complacency", New Scientist says today, adding that injuries inflicted by vegetables "remain unacceptably high" at 13,132. Hospital admissions caused by socks and tights rose from 9,843 to 10,773, while birdbath accidents almost trebled to 311.
Roger Vincent, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, said: "We never cease to be amazed by the way in which people manage to injure themselves, but it remains the case that home accidents are still the major cause of injuries in this country. Nearly three million people are injured in the home every year and 4,000 of them die."
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I remember some years ago visiting a car insurance office for a renewal, and upon mentioning "Airline Pilot", found that a good half of the insurers available disappeared off the computer screen due to "high risk".
No trouble more recently thank goodness.
The drive to/from work at "stupid o'clock" is definitely the most dangerous bit.
No trouble more recently thank goodness.
The drive to/from work at "stupid o'clock" is definitely the most dangerous bit.
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cashier jobs are risky bussiness, see the fatallity rate at gas stations and seven-elevens. My most dangrous parts of the job are the drive to and from the airport and walking up and down those wobling scary stairs (freight dogs don't park at a nice jetbridge and apparently don't even deserve a solid stair)
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What a load of hoof
If the punters got wind of the fact that the people flying them were thwenty times as likely to die flying than joe public I don't think you would be leaving the gate looking at a lot of faces pressed to the departure lounge window doing the hail mary, having not boarded the plane. This report is a waste of public money, and the chap or chappesse was probaly killed watering his birdbath wearing wellis. mmm
If the punters got wind of the fact that the people flying them were thwenty times as likely to die flying than joe public I don't think you would be leaving the gate looking at a lot of faces pressed to the departure lounge window doing the hail mary, having not boarded the plane. This report is a waste of public money, and the chap or chappesse was probaly killed watering his birdbath wearing wellis. mmm
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Shytalk,
Talking of getting things;
How about an original username?
ShyT
P.S. In a previous job (Heli SAR, Far East) myself and colleagues were refused life cover / permanent health insurance by most companies.
[This message has been edited by ShyTorque (edited 15 June 2001).]
Talking of getting things;
How about an original username?
ShyT
P.S. In a previous job (Heli SAR, Far East) myself and colleagues were refused life cover / permanent health insurance by most companies.
[This message has been edited by ShyTorque (edited 15 June 2001).]
