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Re:Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews saf... by tialaramex on Monday January 08, 2024 @08:29PM (#38921066)
I think the airbag comparison is a bit off, airbag deployment is automatic, so it may be that all the humans involved were like "This is fine" but you tripped the impact limits and so now there's an airbag deployment, CAPS isn't like that, a human has made the conscious decision to deploy.
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Re:Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews saf... by sokoloff on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:00PM (#38921277)
Yes, but the outcome is still a statistical improvement over a non-zero baseline. Some of the stricken Cirrus would have been landed with zero fatalities (likely including my flight instructor's case).

Calling them all "saves" is overstating the incremental benefit.

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