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Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight::Why are so many flights getting canceled or delayed? Blame a mysterious British supplier accused of falsified documents for plane components.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Sure, but... commercial airliners almost never crash?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (25 children)

Most planes in general don’t crash, fwiw. Most trains and cars don’t, either.

But would you rather your Uber was a Camry or a Lada Niva?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't care because I understand how probability works.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

When I’m driving down the highway, I spend as little time as possible next to semi-trailers because I’ve met loads of drivers and know how many are on heavy drugs or haven’t slept for far too long so they can meet their deadlines.

Probability-wise, it’s safe, but I don’t like it. Not everything is about raw numbers, Mr Spock.

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