By nearly all measures, flying in 2017 was safer than ever.

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Last year, there were 10 fatal commercial passenger and cargo air crashes that killed 44 passengers and crew members. That compares favorably to the five-year average of 17 crashes with 495 deaths, according to the Aviation Safety Network (ASN), which tracks aviation incidents and accidents.

Remarkably, no jet-powered commercial passenger jets crashed in 2017. The deaths recorded last year were all from cargo planes or smaller propeller-driven passenger aircraft. Monday marked 399 days since the last fatal passenger jet airliner accident, according to the network. That crash in November 2016 killed 71 of the 77 people aboard, including most of the Brazilian Chapecoense football team. The jet ran out of fuel when it was attempting to land in Colombia.

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http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/01/news/2017-safest-year-on-record/index.html
 
PILOTS ARE TOO DANGEROUS! WE NEED PILOTLESS AIRPLANES! IT'LL MAKE EVERYTHING SAFER! BOW DOWN TO OUR ROBOT OVERLORDS!

 
jtrain609 said:
PILOTS ARE TOO DANGEROUS! WE NEED PILOTLESS AIRPLANES! IT'LL MAKE EVERYTHING SAFER! BOW DOWN TO OUR ROBOT OVERLORDS!

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No one is saying it's a good idea, but silicone valley is the "good idea factory" and "disruptor" for all industries. If Boeing and Airbus follow the valley's stupid leads, economics will rule.
 
Soku39 said:
No one is saying it's a good idea, but silicone valley is the "good idea factory" and "disruptor" for all industries. If Boeing and Airbus follow the valley's stupid leads, economics will rule.
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*Silicon. "Silicone" valley is a bit further south.

Also, your sarcasm is misplaced—silicon valley pretty much literally made modern computing and the internet, and a great many of the things that are awesome about both.

Carry on.

-Fox
 
Acrofox said:
*Silicon. "Silicone" valley is a bit further south.

Also, your sarcasm is misplaced—silicon valley pretty much literally made modern computing and the internet, and a great many of the things that are awesome about both.

Carry on.

-Fox
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Reminds me of when I hear hippy ladies decry the evils of Western medicine.
 
Soku39 said:
No one is saying it's a good idea, but silicone valley is the "good idea factory" and "disruptor" for all industries. If Boeing and Airbus follow the valley's stupid leads, economics will rule.
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Again, as I keep saying, it sounds easy. All these millennials have to do is code some stuff while eating avocado toast and not saving for retirement and we'll have self flying airplanes next week.

The reality is not that simple, nor is it cheap.

You've got to figure out how to program a computer that can beat humans who haven't killed anyone in the last seven years. We've managed to crash airplanes during that time and everyone has STILL walked out, thanks to the humans up front. Nobody is going to get on an airplane that doesn't have a PROVEN safety record that EXCEEDS the level of safety humans provide.

So yes, this is about economics; the economics of nobody buying a ticket on an airliner they don't trust.

But let's say we could mach the safety record, we're talking about BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars to get the basics down.



Boeing sunk $32 billion into the 787, you think they could afford to double the development costs of that airframe and still expect to turn a profit in the civilian market?

And this is all assuming you can figure out every possible event and outcome an aircraft runs into during its life. You only need to look at United 232 as an example of the impossible happening from an engineering standpoint; the guys at MD were CONVINCED you'd never grenade all three hydraulic systems at one time, it just simply couldn't happen.

Until it did and a pilot had to step in and save the day.

So yes, keep at it, the doom and gloom! The end of our economy as we know it! Everyone will be on basic soon and hopefully Earth and Mars don't get into a shooting war.

I love science fiction as much as the next guy, but there's a whole lot more fiction in these wild economic and technology models than science.
 
Derg said:
He's been so strict on commercial aviation. Thank you Glorious Leader and your perfect golf games. :)

Clean coal NEXT!
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Actually, coal mining deaths soared in 2017 relative to other years. Trump - as awesome and omnipotent as he is - can only impact a couple things at a time. In 2017 he chose to handle global airline safety and ignored coal mines, leading to death and carnage and such.
 
WacoFan said:
Actually, coal mining deaths soared in 2017 relative to other years. Trump - as awesome and omnipotent as he is - can only impact a couple things at a time. In 2017 he chose to handle global airline safety and ignored coal mines, leading to death and carnage and such.
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Do not speak ill of the Glorious Leader. His will was that those miners die. We may not understand why, but he works in mysterious ways. You just have to have faith.
 
z987k said:
Do not speak ill of the Glorious Leader. His will was that those miners die. We may not understand why, but he works in mysterious ways. You just have to have faith.
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Glorious leader culled the weak, thus leaving the strong to MAKE GLORY.

I wonder should I make a bot that translates his tweets into Korean in order to make prosperous from his eternal sunlight.
 
Derg said:
Glorious leader culled the weak, thus leaving the strong to MAKE GLORY.

I wonder should I make a bot that translates his tweets into Korean in order to make prosperous from his eternal sunlight.
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You keep coming up with new reasons for me to pay to use this site and at the same time refusing to take my money. Why, Doug? Why?
 
You know, if it was this:

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취임 한 이래 상업 항공에 매우 엄격했습니다. 좋은 소식 - 2017 년 사망자가 가장 많았고, 기록적인 최고 기록 인 것으로보고되었습니다.
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People would lose their minds. But it's the same exact tweet, translated in Korean!

Maybe Glorious Leader Trump will point at a chart and cure cancer.
 
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