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T3n4ci0us_G t1_j4vytcj wrote

Reply to comment by Minerva8918 in Qantas plane lands safely after mayday alert by KobayashiNoritake

I'm not a good flyer. I'm flying on the 29th.

I watch Mayday a lot but I stopped about a month ago to lower my anxiety. I have to say, the recent crash(es) and incidents aren't helping matters.

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JustAnotherDude1990 t1_j4w2y6q wrote

You mean the ones overseas in countries with safety records so bad first world countries won’t allow their airlines to operate within their air space?

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T3n4ci0us_G t1_j4y89qa wrote

There have been a cpl in the U.S. lately

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JustAnotherDude1990 t1_j4y9qci wrote

Not on any mainline carriers like Delta, American, United, etc. The general aviation community safety is nowhere near the levels of the mainline carriers. I think the only fatality in the last decade on any of the US mainline carriers was 2018 maybe, and that was a single fatality. Before that, it had been a decade or so.

Source: am a pilot

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T3n4ci0us_G t1_j4ydswk wrote

Not crashes necessarily:

Emergency landing - Lufthansa: https://people.com/human-interest/plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-chicago-after-passengers-laptop-catches-fire/

Bird strike - not high-end carrier, but shit happens: https://www.wpbf.com/article/passenger-jetblue-flight-62-plane-emergency-landing-haley-gozar/42514277

Near collision - Delta and American: https://people.com/travel/2-packed-planes-almost-collide-at-jfk-airport-a-split-second-of-panic-says-passenger/

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JustAnotherDude1990 t1_j4yernv wrote

>Emergency landing - Lufthansa: https://people.com/human-interest/plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-chicago-after-passengers-laptop-catches-fire/

Ok...so an issue was safely resolved that wouldn't have crashed the plane anyways.

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>Bird strike - not high-end carrier, but shit happens: https://www.wpbf.com/article/passenger-jetblue-flight-62-plane-emergency-landing-haley-gozar/42514277

Still considered a Part 121 aka mainline carrier. And multi-engined planes have multiple engines for a reason - redundancy. Even the multi engine plane I did my multi engine training in designed in the 1950's had the capability to fly on a single engine, and we even routinely practiced turning one off in flight as part of the training. It landed safely and didn't even come close to disaster.

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>Near collision - Delta and American: https://people.com/travel/2-packed-planes-almost-collide-at-jfk-airport-a-split-second-of-panic-says-passenger/

Yes, these things occasionally happen and large investigations are opened after that to find the cause and implement solutions to make sure similar instances dont happen again. Have you put this much effort into researching car crashes? How would many of them have happened since you and I started this conversation? If every single close call in vehicles were reported on the national news, dont you think you'd feel a bit more scared of driving?

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TheVanHasCandy t1_j4yexqr wrote

Yeah you had the one pax that passed away on the SW flight with engine issues.

Before that it was the Colgan Q400 that iced up on approach in 2009.

Domestic mainline is so incredibly safe.

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JustAnotherDude1990 t1_j4yf7yg wrote

Yeah so...1 in 9 years is pretty good considering how many people die a year in the US in car crashes? 30,000-50,000 if I remember right?

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TheVanHasCandy t1_j4yfrjk wrote

And that one was arguably just incredibly bad luck. Had no one been in that seat it probably wouldn't have been a fatality.

I'm more terrified on my 10 minute commute to the office than I ever am on a US airline and I fly almost weekly. Sitting on an E175 as we speak.

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JustAnotherDude1990 t1_j4yfz0f wrote

I've only flown on the E175 once and I actually really liked it for how quiet it was.

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TheVanHasCandy t1_j4ygeyx wrote

It's a dope little jet and I usually get upgraded so I love the single first class seats.

This particular route used to be covered by a Dash 8 until 5-6 years ago so the Embraer was like going from Kia to a Rolls Royce.

I think the quietest I've been on was an A321neo but yeah the 175 is definitely my preferred regional jet. Fuck all CRJs, especially the 200.

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