Airplane / personal airport security experiences

[Ipquarx]

i want to see the specific statistic that shows probability of surviving an aircraft crash
not a civilian aircraft, thats easy to survive, im talking planes like a 787

That statistic is completely irrelevant, but if you want the most reputable source I could find, here you go:
http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm
again, it's completely irrelevant on its own. You need to take into account both things.

Statistics range from 20-50%. It's not exactly clear what the exact number is because so few plane accidents have actually happened, there's not a big enough sample size to get an accurate number.

If we were to compare this to say, cars. Annually, the average person has a 1/4000-1/8000 chance of dying in a car crash. If we say that the average person drives once a day all year then that leaves the chances of dying in a given car drive are 1 in 1.5 million to 1 in 3 million tops. Compare that to airliners 1 in 8 million.

We can also compare the deaths per million miles traveled of airplanes and cars ( http://www.statisticbrain.com/car-crash-fatality-statistics-2/ ) assuming planes like 747s travel around 550mph, then we get:
Cars: 1.13 deaths per million miles traveled
Planes: 0.02 deaths per million miles traveled

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[shitlord]

miles traveled for a plane and a car are obviously going to be different what the forget dude
im not going to disagree that planes dont often crash
what im trying to say is
when a plane crashes stuff goes WRONG
when a car crashes its usually not that bad

[Ipquarx]

miles traveled for a plane and a car are obviously going to be different what the forget dude
im not going to disagree that planes dont often crash
what im trying to say is
when a plane crashes stuff goes WRONG
when a car crashes its usually not that bad

Uh, no, miles are the same everywhere. The average distance traveled in one sitting is different, yes, but that's it. And as I've stated, if you want to know how dangerous it is to ride in a plane you need to take all variables into account, not just survivability. and that's what I did. In any given plane ride, you are significantly less likely to die in a crash.

And no stuff plane crashes are worse. Expecting anything to take 1000x the force as a car crash and have an even remotely similar survival rate is completely unreasonable.

[shitlord]

Uh, no, miles are the same everywhere. The average distance traveled in one sitting is different, yes, but that's it. And as I've stated, if you want to know how dangerous it is to ride in a plane you need to take all variables into account, not just survivability. and that's what I did. In any given plane ride, you are significantly less likely to die in a crash.

And no stuff plane crashes are worse. Expecting anything to take 1000x the force as a car crash and have an even remotely similar survival rate is completely unreasonable.

yes thats what i was trying to say
i dont see how miles are the same when planes can travel thousands of miles in a single trip compared to cars usually only traveling 300 - 400 at most in between stops

[Otis Da HousKat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94IURXCoY5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqgE12mvw-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7lBeaceQKg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYmaP5OKWBQ
(a documentary, a bit long, but still viable) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLnFpaKYIrY

when a little plane crashes theres not much to crash, its light, and small
when a big plane crashes its a massive impact, with huge amounts of fuel and metal at way higher speeds

much easier to survive a small crash than a big crash

Fair points and neato vids. Thanks.

[Red Spy]

i dont see how miles are the same when planes can travel thousands of miles in a single trip compared to cars usually only traveling 300 - 400 at most in between stops

are you asking why planes can travel farther in one go rather than a car?

[shitlord]

are you asking why planes can travel farther in one go rather than a car?

...........no?

[Maxwell.]

i want to see the specific statistic that shows probability of surviving an aircraft crash
not a civilian aircraft, thats easy to survive, im talking planes like a 787

cars are a lot smaller than 787s, if a big commercial airliner crashed it would just explode whereas cars don't (most of the time) and also the force of crashing in a plane is a lot greater
so basically more people die in plane crashes because they're big things but planes don't crash as often

...forget this was already answered

[espio100]

Cars also dont drive in skyscrapers most of the time 

[Nickpb 2.0]

Cars also dont drive in skyscrapers most of the time 

9/11 jokes always classy

[Tezuni 2.0]

Jet fuel can't melt steel beams. But it can weaken it enough to collapse under a heavy load. Bitch!

[Maxwell.]

my theory: steel beams never existed in the first place

[HellHound]

Shirley you can't be serious?

[shitlord]

yes i am serious and dont call me Shirley

[carolcat]

the memphis airport didn't care about the bottle of lotion in my purse, but the d.c. airport thew it away. it was my favorite christmas lotion too