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Subject:Re: (LVC) Oh, The Humanity!
From:Aristotle Sagan
Date:Mon, 7 May 2007 22:42:04 -0700

John...
We are talking 1937 here. Airline safety was no where near the 9sigma it
flys under today.

A lot of people died to get those numbers up.

tim in san jose

On 5/7/07, John Reddick <SVYOLO@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 1,000,000 miles before an accident is nothing to brag about. Neither is 1
> crash out of 650 flights.  Any commercial aircraft would be permanently
> grounded if it reached 1/10,000 of either mishap rate.
>
> John
>

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