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Sometimes, the most important news is when something *isn’t* happening: Since the last plane crash by a US airline, they have transported passengers for more than two *light-years*
Chart showing that the cumulative passenger miles traveled without a plane crash by US airlines is 2.3 light years.
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Jordan McQueen🦋@jm.dev
@jmq_en
To be pedantic, passenger-light-years, so the total distance flown is 2.3 light years / sum of all people on all those flights. Still incredibly impressive.
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Viscount John Smith
@theviscountJS
This isn’t by chance or luck. The aviation sector in this country, from ATC to pilots to plane manufacturers, have adopted a safety based culture and this is the fruit of that effort.
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Colm Moore
@UrbnWarfareDuck
This is somewhat selective. It counts one country for one period of time. It excludes general aviation (cargo, private flights, helicopters). It only counts crash deaths, not other deaths.
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Bad Art Friend
@Putney_Kotto
I had a related thought about how well airline travel went this Thanksgiving. It was annual news how terrible holiday travel is except it wasn't this year and no one talked about it.
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AbAngus
@AbAngus1
Alaska Airlines were very lucky on 5 Jan 24 when a door blew out at what was luckily a relatively low altitude....
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