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What makes you so blithe? Expertise in the airline industry? You’re saying nothing factual and coming across as a contrarian.

The article is clear and I agree with it, and so do the stats. Airline safety is in the ridiculously safe category. The point of the article, and stats that are easily looked up, is that there have been 0 deaths this year on major airlines but despite that a door blew out and people are loosing their minds, for months. Put this energy into figuring out how this industry has been so incredibly successful at safety so that we can apply that to cars, medicine, industry or basically any other place because airlines are s-a-f-e and the fear and panic people are driving right now because of a door is actually likely to make things worse and not better. I love aviation. I spent a large chunk of my life dedicated to it but we can't innovate even one little bit because a door broke off meanwhile we drive by fatal accidents on the road all the time. Most people know people that have died in a car accident and many have even been in near fatal accidents but there is no panic, fear or months long panic in national media over the 30k+ deaths on the road every year. I'm not blithe. I am actually mad. I -love- flying but we are devastating the industry with panic to the great loss of everyone. Go ahead, keep hyping the fear and drive people from the skies and onto the roads so that they can actually be in danger.

They're a 3 month old account.

And yours is 13 years old? So? Is there a discussion here relevant to aviation somewhere?

The discussion above was about what makes you blithe and fact-free, which I implicitly agreed with the other commenter was the case, and so, yes, the age of your account is one way how people sanity-check for trolls and shills, which is relevant to having a "discussion" at all.

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