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Re:The Differences Between the Plane Crash in Tapei and the ... by dhimes on Thursday April 09, 2015 @12:26PM (#9348747)
8,200 years before you were involved in a FATAL accident and you would have a 80+% chance of SURVIVING that (All caps emphasis mine)

Is this (fatal/survive) a typo, or does it mean you could survive where some passengers don't?

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Re:The Differences Between the Plane Crash in Tapei and the ... by danielvf on Thursday April 09, 2015 @12:36PM (#9348841)
A fatal aircraft accident is one with a death. But most "fatal" airline crashes have only a few deaths. Take the recent AsianAir crash in San Franciso. It was a "fatal" crash, but only four of the three hundred some people on the aircraft died.
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