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by sneed_chucker 826 days ago
When trains or buses crash, the majority of the passengers survive in most cases.

When commercial airliners crash, usually everyone on board dies.

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High speed trains in Japan have no screening at all. I imagine a well-placed bomb going off could have a similar number of casualties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela_derailm...

It could almost certainly be extremely deadly if it happens. Man, these were the two main ones I recall - Spain has had some bad luck.