For those of you who don't take note every time a death tube falls out of the sky, another death tube has fallen out of the sky. An Air France passenger jet crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, most likely killing all 228 people on board (assuming none of them are hanging out with Tom Hanks and a volleyball on some, random island).
So here's what I'm wondering: how long can we keep calling it the safest form of travel if planes keep nose diving into the earth every other week? OK sure, more people die from Segway scooter accidents every year than they do from aviation "incidents", but come on. I mean, Come On. Doesn't it seem like the odds of dying in a plane crash have increased dramatically over the last few years (don't answer that, Daniel. I don't need you confusing things with statics and facts here).
Well, I've well exceeded my 30 second maximum for this blog, so I should wrap this up. I'll leave you with a few lines from the yahoo article I just read about the crash.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/brazil_plane
In it, Jean-Louis Borloo, the French minister overseeing transportation said that the Airbus A330 is "one of the most reliable planes in the world.... There really had to be a succession of extraordinary events to be able to explain this situation."
Right.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Most planes do crash. Recall that with Quantum Physics, for each possible event, the universe splits with parallel paths where both possibilities are realized.
ReplyDeleteOur universe is a very improbable one with a history that followed the "no-crash" paths in many of its previous splits.
However, the immense odds of imminent flying death are still there, and it's only a matter of time before our universe is reabsorbed into the main stream.
This latest crash could be the first step in the Great Reabsorption.