Excluding todays incident, and estimated 108 people have died world
wide in air disasters this year.
Last year 580, including 13 people on the ground.
2006- 561
2005- 927 + a few on the ground.
2004- 284

Yes we should really be worried about air disasters.

NotMe wrote:
> Excluding todays incident, and estimated 108 people have died world
> wide in air disasters this year.
> Last year 580, including 13 people on the ground.
> 2006- 561
> 2005- 927 + a few on the ground.
> 2004- 284
> 
> Yes we should really be worried about air disasters.

If your name is Duhg no doubt. But balance that against the number of 
passengers that travel by air and you will see that its actually the 
safest way to travel.

-- 
John Wright

"What would happen if you eliminated the autism genes from the gene pool?

You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and
socialising and not getting anything done!" - Professor Temple Grandin

On 20 Aug, 22:42, John Wright  wrote:
> NotMe wrote:
> > Excluding todays incident, and estimated 108 people have died world
> > wide in air disasters this year.
> > Last year 580, including 13 people on the ground.
> > 2006- 561
> > 2005- 927 + a few on the ground.
> > 2004- 284
>
> > Yes we should really be worried about air disasters.
>
> If your name is Duhg no doubt. But balance that against the number of
> passengers that travel by air and you will see that its actually the
> safest way to travel.
>
Yes it is curious isn't it, Jhno, that so much media attention is
given to air crashes and so little to car crashes, when the latter
cause far more deaths and serious injuries.

--
UK Radical Campaigns
www.zing.icom43.net
One man's democracy is another man's regime.

On 21 Aug, 06:48, Doug  wrote:
> On 20 Aug, 22:42, John Wright  wrote:> NotMe wrote:
> > > Excluding todays incident, and estimated 108 people have died world
> > > wide in air disasters this year.
> > > Last year 580, including 13 people on the ground.
> > > 2006- 561
> > > 2005- 927 + a few on the ground.
> > > 2004- 284
>
> > > Yes we should really be worried about air disasters.
>
> > If your name is Duhg no doubt. But balance that against the number of
> > passengers that travel by air and you will see that its actually the
> > safest way to travel.
>
> Yes it is curious isn't it, Jhno, that so much media attention is
> given to air crashes and so little to car crashes, when the latter
> cause far more deaths and serious injuries.

Of course smoking causes orders of magnitudes more deaths than driving

"Doug"  wrote in message 
news:1ea28aaa-d8e7-42bc-b9c5-242354e2555d@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> On 20 Aug, 22:42, John Wright  wrote:
>> NotMe wrote:
>> > Excluding todays incident, and estimated 108 people have died world
>> > wide in air disasters this year.
>> > Last year 580, including 13 people on the ground.
>> > 2006- 561
>> > 2005- 927 + a few on the ground.
>> > 2004- 284
>>
>> > Yes we should really be worried about air disasters.
>>
>> If your name is Duhg no doubt. But balance that against the number of
>> passengers that travel by air and you will see that its actually the
>> safest way to travel.
>>
> Yes it is curious isn't it, Jhno, that so much media attention is
> given to air crashes and so little to car crashes, when the latter
> cause far more deaths and serious injuries.

All a matter of scale. If there's a huge motorway pile up with many dead, 
then yes, it makes big news. The higher the body count, the bigger the story 
[1]. It has always been thus.

[1]Not forgetting the nationality factor, i.e. 1 dead Brit os equivalent in 
news terms to 10 dead white Europeans/Americans or 1000 dead Africans/Asians

In message 
, Paul 
Weaver  writes
>On 21 Aug, 06:48, Doug  wrote:
>> On 20 Aug, 22:42, John Wright  wrote:> NotMe wrote:
>> > > Excluding todays incident, and estimated 108 people have died world
>> > > wide in air disasters this year.
>> > > Last year 580, including 13 people on the ground.
>> > > 2006- 561
>> > > 2005- 927 + a few on the ground.
>> > > 2004- 284
>>
>> > > Yes we should really be worried about air disasters.
>>
>> > If your name is Duhg no doubt. But balance that against the number of
>> > passengers that travel by air and you will see that its actually the
>> > safest way to travel.
>>
>> Yes it is curious isn't it, Jhno, that so much media attention is
>> given to air crashes and so little to car crashes, when the latter
>> cause far more deaths and serious injuries.
>
>Of course smoking causes orders of magnitudes more deaths than driving

And there are more fatal accidents in the home each year than on the 
road.

So maybe Bollen should be evicted from his council flat for his own 
protection.


-- 
Ed Banger

Ed Banger wrote:
> In message 
> , Paul 
> Weaver  writes
>> On 21 Aug, 06:48, Doug  wrote:
>>> On 20 Aug, 22:42, John Wright  wrote:> NotMe 
>>> wrote:
>>> > > Excluding todays incident, and estimated 108 people have died world
>>> > > wide in air disasters this year.
>>> > > Last year 580, including 13 people on the ground.
>>> > > 2006- 561
>>> > > 2005- 927 + a few on the ground.
>>> > > 2004- 284
>>>
>>> > > Yes we should really be worried about air disasters.
>>>
>>> > If your name is Duhg no doubt. But balance that against the number of
>>> > passengers that travel by air and you will see that its actually the
>>> > safest way to travel.
>>>
>>> Yes it is curious isn't it, Jhno, that so much media attention is
>>> given to air crashes and so little to car crashes, when the latter
>>> cause far more deaths and serious injuries.
>>
>> Of course smoking causes orders of magnitudes more deaths than driving
> 
> And there are more fatal accidents in the home each year than on the road.
> 
> So maybe Bollen should be evicted from his council flat for his own 
> protection.
> 
> 
And left to play on the road?

-- 
Tony the Dragon

Tony Dragon wrote:
> Ed Banger wrote:
>> In message
>> ,
>> Paul Weaver  writes
>>> On 21 Aug, 06:48, Doug  wrote:
>>>> On 20 Aug, 22:42, John Wright  wrote:> NotMe
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Excluding todays incident, and estimated 108 people have died
>>>>>> world wide in air disasters this year.
>>>>>> Last year 580, including 13 people on the ground.
>>>>>> 2006- 561
>>>>>> 2005- 927 + a few on the ground.
>>>>>> 2004- 284
>>>>
>>>>>> Yes we should really be worried about air disasters.
>>>>
>>>>> If your name is Duhg no doubt. But balance that against the
>>>>> number of passengers that travel by air and you will see that its
>>>>> actually the safest way to travel.
>>>>
>>>> Yes it is curious isn't it, Jhno, that so much media attention is
>>>> given to air crashes and so little to car crashes, when the latter
>>>> cause far more deaths and serious injuries.
>>>
>>> Of course smoking causes orders of magnitudes more deaths than
>>> driving
>>
>> And there are more fatal accidents in the home each year than on the
>> road. So maybe Bollen should be evicted from his council flat for his own
>> protection.
>>
>>
> And left to play on the road?

But that would contamnate the road.