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by zamadatix 730 days ago
https://i.imgur.com/tyq5qOC.png

I'm all for backing the regulatory pressure that has allowed this constant improvement (consider that flights per year have increased while the trendlines in those graphs have decreased) but I'm going to need to see that accident number reach about 100x what it is right now before I care about it enough to personally switch flights. The commercial aerospace side of Boeing has over 10,000 engineers, several of them have probably said we didn't land on the moon too. The way their management has handled decline in their record is at least a fair point just not nearly bad enough yet for me to really care as often as articles about it get posted here or enough to switch flights yet.

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Was just playing with some other NTSB statistics and noticed the graph range doesn't shrink to fit, here's the continued risk decline: https://i.imgur.com/gKomsVa.png