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Um. What are the odds? Both events are pretty unlikely, to the point of being insignificant unless you expect to live for a few thousands of years.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 13th, 2006 at 09:41:39 AM EST
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Here are detailed statistics about air disasters. The risk is per flight, not per distance travelled, and is broken down by aircraft model. The Boeing 737 has 3 accidents for each 5 million flights.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Sep 13th, 2006 at 09:48:32 AM EST
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