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Re:Passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing, flight can... by sokoloff on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @11:12AM (#39105288)
> the fact remains there hasn't been a single commercial aviation fatality in the US since 2009

SWA1380 was in 2018 and resulted in a passenger fatality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380

> where they literally shoot frozen turkeys from cannons into engines to test for bird strike resilience

The bird strike testing uses thawed birds. There's a joke where the punchline is they were using frozen birds.

Re:Passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing, flight can... by kkielhofner on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @12:08PM (#39106170)
> SWA1380 was in 2018 and resulted in a passenger fatality:

I stand corrected: 1 single fatality from over five years ago across billions of people-flights. Doesn't change the point in the slightest and as I said elsewhere, these incidents are so rare people can recall and reference them specifically as you just did. Other than a major celebrity dying that doesn't happen with any other single death incident.

> The bird strike testing uses thawed birds.

Thanks, again corrected (not trying to be snarky, I like knowing when I'm wrong). Point still stands in replying to someone talking about paint chips.

Re:Passenger notices missing bolts on plane wing, flight can... by sokoloff on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @12:10PM (#39106191)
Indeed. The amount of paint that could possibly be ingested is minuscule, especially as compared to the amount of volcanic ash that could be flown through.