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Originally Posted by Sea Ray
You did give the impression that they're ready to drop from the sky
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No, my point was that there is razor thin line between safe & non-safe and if the general flying public knew how close to the line the industry is, the herd mentality would lead them to chose other forms of transportation.
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Originally Posted by Sea Ray
If recent events are effecting airlines (age, bankruptcies, mega-mergers) then why are they safer than ever? I can't recall the last maintenance related crash.
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Again you are missing the point. All I am saying is that there is a small margin of error between safe and non-safe in commerical airlines.
Those events you mentioned mearly push the airlines closer to that edge, not necessarly over it. Will the airlines and technology push the ballence away from the edge? Likely they will, but that doesn't change the fact that a whole bunch of issues can effect the safety of an airliner. You'll also note that I've said those events would "increase the risk" not "those events will definatley lead to planes falling out of the sky".
I've not said that the airlines are unsafe, in fact, several times have said the advancements is safety have been huge and that airlines are signifcantly safer now than they were in the 1960's. I also commented that the improvements are mostly testiment to the men and women who fly and maintain the aircraft.
BTW - the most recient domestic maintenance related crashes include a Northwest Airlines CRJ in 2004 due to engine failure, US Airlines Commuter B1100 in 2003 due to misrigged aerlons after a maintenance check and American Airlines A300 in 2001 after the vertical stabilzer broke off the aircraft.
The 1990's had a raft of maintence related crashes, but you are correct that it's been a long while since one, and a greatly reduced number at that. (Then again, many of those maintenance/mechancial related crashes did involve the older aircraft types of the time...funny...almost like the point you keep missing).
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Originally Posted by Sea Ray
You're deriding the industry and I think they should be commended for their record.
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If you want to call pointing out the obivous deriding, so be it. I agree that the industry should be commended for the record (as I have stated a few times now and you continue to ignore) but that really has no relation to any of the points I have made.