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Preliminary report into Air India crash released

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340 points cjr | 3 comments | 11 Jul 25 20:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.758s | source
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gethly ◴[12 Jul 25 06:55 UTC] No.44539938[source]▶
It's simple - just don't fly Boeing - ever.
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timeon ◴[12 Jul 25 07:55 UTC] No.44540176[source]▶
You know what? I'm just not going to fly - ever.
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1. bravesoul2 ◴[12 Jul 25 12:41 UTC] No.44541652[source]▶
Your choice but safer to fly than drive the same journey. Commercial airliners anyway.
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2. anton-c ◴[12 Jul 25 14:43 UTC] No.44542422[source]▶
Yes I acknowledge this. But I also retain control to the very last moment. I don't have to bank on the driver of my vehicle not being suicidal. If I feel another driver is dangerous, I can just stop. This obviously doesnt prevent all accidents but I've never been in a serious one.

That being said ive flown plenty of times. My fear comes from lacking any control and just finding out mid-flight were going down through no fault of my own. I wouldn't want to know, but then again air France 447 is terrifying too.

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3. lambdaone ◴[12 Jul 25 15:37 UTC] No.44542799[source]▶
You still have to rely on other drivers not being actually suicidal. Just to give one terrifying example scenario: you will pass hundreds, if not thousands of other drivers driving in the opposite direction in the course of a long journey. Any motorist driving in the opposing lane has the ability to engage other drivers in a head-on collision at any time by making a relatively trivial maneuver. Given human reaction times, and the very high closing velocity of such a collision, you ability to avoid this would seem to be non-existent. You certainly couldn't "just stop" to prevent it.