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Re:One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence by pfdietz on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @08:51AM (#40427797)
It's also so if a window fails you don't get sucked all the way out (although you can still be killed if you're sucked partially out, as happened on a Southwest Airlines flight to an unfortunate passenger.)
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Re:One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence by maxglute on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @11:15AM (#40429538)
I think more people would belt up if they have animations of people cracking necks or getting sucked out of window in the preflight video.
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Re:One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence by ec109685 on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:03PM (#40431691)
Probably would result in less people flying, more people driving, resulting in more deaths overall.
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Re:One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence by pfdietz on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @04:00PM (#40433114)
So, combine it with pictures of what happens when you don't wear a seatbelt in a car.
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Re:One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence by junga on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @07:17PM (#40435362)
But this does not happen to you because you are an exceptionally good driver.
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Re:One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence by seoulmetro on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @08:14PM (#40435885)
I don't understand this weird line of thinking. Don't do positive X because some people might respond to it in a weird way and do neutral Y.

Cattling statistics like this is silly.

If you showed fat people images of obesity and said that they'd be healthier if they lost their weight, you would also cattle the statistics and look at how many fat people decided to suicide versus how many took the advice (or didn't)? What a dumb way to construct advice.

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Re:One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence by ec109685 on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @10:40PM (#40436823)
I mean if it caused a spike of suicides, I’d find a new message.
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Re:One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence by seoulmetro on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @07:42PM (#40448343)
Yeah and that's incredibly dumb.
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Re:One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence by jfim on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @02:05PM (#40431721)
That might make the pax more nervous and unlikely to fly more.
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