Re:UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, o...
by JCharante on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @01:40PM
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if it happens once a decade occasional sounds right
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Re:UPS plane crashes near airport in Louisville, Kentucky, o...
by rogerrogerr on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @02:23PM
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So far this year alone, there have been 31,000,000 flights. https://www.airportia.com/flights-monitor/. So somewhere around 300,000,000 flights per decade.
If someone said an event happens “occasionally”, I would expect it to be significantly more frequent than 1/300,000,000.
Powerball lottery odds are 1 in 292 million. I wouldn’t say that I “occasionally” win the lottery when I buy a ticket!