«To put in perspective, how many of us would choose to buckle our grandchildren to an airplane seat if we knew there was as much as a 1 in 20
chance of the plane crashing?»
Not exact matches
A convoluted plan that relies on events completely within the realm
of chance yet comes off without a... Air China passenger
plane «nearly
crashes into a Hong Kong mountain after pilot fails to understand instructions and takes a WRONG turn» Flight CA428
In the case
of Donnie Darko, any movie that used a
plane crash as a major catalyst for its plot and which was released just a month after the 9/11 attacks had about as much
of a
chance of success as I would if I tried to get a gig writing a Star Wars movie.
If you are planning a trip that involves air travel and you find out that one airline has a
crash rate
of.01 % and another.1 % (these are just hypothetical numbers;
planes are much safer than this), you are going to choose the former, even if you are considering one - in - on - thousand
chances because the consequences are so dire / fatal.
A fatal
crash of a
plane they took last week or were planning to take next week or take regularly, a bomb that rocks through our favorite coffee shop or hotel or our local airport — these are the events that shake us to our core despite statistics telling us we have a MUCH greater
chance of being struck by lightning than dying in a terrorist attack.
The
chances of a person dying in a
plane crash has to include the
chances of any particular person flying at all and the
chances that any time the person flies, the
plane will
crash (fatally to the person, which is not every time).
Chances are, you know people who are frightened
of flying in airplanes but don't think twice about getting into an automobile, despite statistics that place the odds
of dying in a
plane crash at 1 in 11 million while the odds
of dying in a car
crash are (according to some sources) as high as 1 in 5,000.