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TheVanHasCandy t1_j4yexqr wrote

Reply to comment by JustAnotherDude1990 in Qantas plane lands safely after mayday alert by KobayashiNoritake

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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