Re:The computer crash
by Retric on Saturday June 06, 2009 @07:49PM
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When people talk about airplane safety issues I like to point out that awesome avionics software, a ridiculous thrust to weight ratio and a great pilot landed an F-15 that had lost it's wing.
The simple fact is bad things happen all the time to airplanes and mostly they just keep on flying. People want 100% safety, but 99.99% is about as far as we can push things when we want to cheaply fly thought the air at 600+ MPH tens of thousands of times a day for hours at a time. Consider the idea that out of all domestic flights on 9/11 less than 1/1000 of them had any real problems.
PS: On a normal day there are 30,000 domestic flights, but most of them where canceled on 9/11.
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/tech_ops/print.main...
The simple fact is bad things happen all the time to airplanes and mostly they just keep on flying. People want 100% safety, but 99.99% is about as far as we can push things when we want to cheaply fly thought the air at 600+ MPH tens of thousands of times a day for hours at a time. Consider the idea that out of all domestic flights on 9/11 less than 1/1000 of them had any real problems.
PS: On a normal day there are 30,000 domestic flights, but most of them where canceled on 9/11.