Post #3470462

2026-06-21 11:51 UTC

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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@NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2026-06-22 04:47

I was just reading a story about some sky divers who died in a plane crash shortly after launch. It said the non commercial airliner stuff isn’t held to the same standards, and whatever state / agency it was said it couldn’t say these types of planes are safe because of it.

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@Zink@programming.dev 2026-06-21 18:02

I have the perfect story for this. About a decade ago I attended a week-long reliability training held by ASQ (the American Society for Quality). One day heading back to my hotel room I shared an elevator with the then-president-chairman of ASQ. He was chatting about airliner safety, and how the engineers would do things like test/measure/calculate to find the necessary thickness of a part, and then just triple it for safety because they could. He said he’d never hesitate to ride a commercial airliner. He then said he would never ride in a helicopter as long as he lived, lol.

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