Or, has that changed much in the past few years since 9/11?
Or, has that changed much in the past few years since 9/11?
Tax- wrote:
Or, has that changed much in the past few years since 9/11?
What do you mean "still?" Do you have baseline evidence that it was one of the least safe forms before 9/11?
It is mostly a matter of how you measure it and what you are comparing it to. Measured by passenger miles airline travel is one of the safest modes of transport. Measured by trips, it doesn't hold up quite as well but it still relatively safe. If you look at general aviation (not commercial airline travel) then it is quite dangerous.
Read that and educate yourself a bit. You think its unsafe because examples of plane crashes come easily to mind because the news doesn't report the thousands upon thousands of routine and normal plane flights that occur every day. Flying is, and has been, an extremely safe way to travel.
MS Paint wrote:
Flying is, and has been, an extremely safe way to travel.
Not always.
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/ap_fusion_man_080521_ssh.jpgdepends if you count your testicles getting irradiated by body scanners.
Tax- wrote:
Or, has that changed much in the past few years since 9/11?
Do you mean "since 1911"? If so, then yes, aviation has become much safer since then.
Posters that start a thread with a wrong premise should be required to return and answer for their stupidity or be permanently banned from posting.
Mr. Obvious wrote:
What do you mean "still?" Do you have baseline evidence that it was one of the least safe forms before 9/11?
It is mostly a matter of how you measure it and what you are comparing it to. Measured by passenger miles airline travel is one of the safest modes of transport. Measured by trips, it doesn't hold up quite as well but it still relatively safe. If you look at general aviation (not commercial airline travel) then it is quite dangerous.
When measured by time in mode of transportation, commercial airplanes are about equal to cars.
Though these stats are from the UK, I suspect they pretty much apply in the U.S.:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_safest_mode_of_transport
"Air travel is the least safe mode of transport per passenger-hour, and it is the 2nd safest mode per passenger-km." [Rail is the safest by each criterion.]
In general, a commercial passenger flight is significantly safer than driving the same distance.
Yes, I do consider radiation from scanners and from the sun to be threats that should be accounted for.
random a hole wrote:
Posters that start a thread with a wrong premise should be required to return and answer for their stupidity or be permanently banned from posting.
Seriously; I'm starting to get sick of seeing threads like the one about freezing your kitchen by leaving the freezer door open, or the one from yesterday about launching RPGs into space.
kibitzer wrote:
Though these stats are from the UK, I suspect they pretty much apply in the U.S.:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_safest_mode_of_transport"Air travel is the least safe mode of transport per passenger-hour, and it is the 2nd safest mode per passenger-km." [Rail is the safest by each criterion.]
In general, a commercial passenger flight is significantly safer than driving the same distance.
There was a story in the Economist about this, 15yrs ago or so.
If you measure just the first 2:00 and last 2:00 of each flight, then flying is a little safer than driving.
Quit bumping such threads, then.
Fixed.
Lyndon Larouche wrote:
If you measure just the first 2:00 and last 2:00 of each flight, then flying is a little safer than driving.
The fatalities/injuries are always in that last minute.
random a hole wrote:
Lyndon Larouche wrote:If you measure just the first 2:00 and last 2:00 of each flight, then flying is a little safer than driving.
The fatalities/injuries are always in that last minute.
And people get hurt on their last ski run as well.
random a hole wrote:
The fatalities/injuries are always in that last minute.
Injuries, and even deaths, can result from mid-flight incidents such as severe turbulence.
luv2run wrote:
random a hole wrote:The fatalities/injuries are always in that last minute.
And people get hurt on their last ski run as well.
Pretty sure that was his point.
