Post #3468447
2026-06-21 11:44 UTC
Replies (6)
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@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-22 01:54
Because those important people are more likely to be in a plane than unimportant people.
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@dustyData@lemmy.world 2026-06-21 11:57
Rich fucks just fly more overall. While flying is very safe. If you do it more, then it is more likely you will be the one in the plane when the rare thing goes wrong. Quirks of privilege.
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@remon@ani.social 2026-06-21 11:51
I was always told that airplanes were statistically safer than cars. Commercial airliners. It’s a very different story for smaller planes. And helicopters are death traps!
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-06-22 04:48
wasnt kobe a helicopter accident. and people glossed over the fact that he allegations of SA in the past when he died.
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@SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2026-06-22 04:54
Small aircraft got the nicknames “widow makers” and “doctor killers” for a reason.
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@mechoman444@lemmy.world 2026-06-21 22:03
God, I hate these arguments. “Look at all these things that happened! There must be something more to this! It’s too much of a coincidence! CONSPIRACY!” Did you know shark attacks increase alongside ice cream sales? By that logic, there must be some secret alliance between Big Ice Cream and the shark cabal. Or maybe both go up because it’s summer and more people are at the beach. The same thing happens with plane crashes involving wealthy people. Rich people fly far more than the average person, and they often fly private aircraft, which have a higher accident rate than commercial airlines. Not every cluster of events is evidence of secret black-ops CIA assassinations. Sometimes a correlation is just a correlation, and sometimes a streak of bad luck is just a streak of bad luck.