5 People killed as plane carrying environment workers to Ohio tragedy crashes

https://www.bts.gov/content/motor-vehicle-safety-data

And the numbers were for fatalities per 100k hours, not miles, because the flight data is recorded in hours.

One of the founders of our partner business has a private plane he uses to fly himself and his salespeople/customers/engineers around the midwest, he's a Part 91 private pilot. I've flown with him before and he's a smart, careful guy, but he's a pilot second and machine salesman first, who happens to use his private plane to enhance his B2B network over distances and to small town destinations that are hard to reach with either driving or with commercial aviation.

Because it's a comparison for business, working hour-by-hour makes some sense, because it's a decision between a 6-hour drive in the morning, working a long day, and driving home the next morning, or flying there in 2 hours, working, and coming back in the same day. You make different decisions when it's a 1-day or half-day trip, versus the 3-day trip I made last week for 6 hours on site. More and more of that gets pushed to videoconferencing....

Can you provide something to support your statement?

Soviet-esque silence on important issues doesn't win confidence.

Part of it is an interesting difference: sometimes, we call secret coordination simply, "organization" or "planning" - when we think it's legitimate to do, expect that it happens, and intend to make it seem harmless (which it often is not; the vast majority of organizational action can be characterized as that, and there is someone harmed by this coordination more often than not. Teachers "organizing" grades happens behind students' backs in closed conferences; the results are life-changing. In principle, people think this is legitimate (where the sociological question is "wait, why?" - not inviting an argument on the pros and cons, but asking the historical question, how did it come about that we developed this process as "normal", with the mere recognition that it need not be this way - without making a judgment on whether this is better or worse, just pointing out a contingency.)

Goffman calls the actions of a family behind the back of a family member "collusion" and outlines how circles of collusion expand, like when people start including more and more people, including doctors, without the member's knowledge, to confront them with a "fait accompli" [2]. Again, not arguing for or against at this point, just noting: from the point of view of the member on the other side, this is a secretly organized betrayal. Much of society largely approves, shown by the involvement of accredited authority figures (including, later on, courts, if it comes to that). This, again, is neither obvious nor natural; it's just what developed (and can be criticized).

So, saying this happens is not a conspiracy theory. Then come the sociological studies about how this -actually- happens. How students get punished through grade adjustments for being a general pain to teachers. How families use the medical system to get rid of unwanted actions that shame them in public (Aunt Hilda is claiming weird things to neighbors. A medical label will calm the situation; or, Uncle Joe doesn't want to sell the house, but we, the children, think he should. A court decision will make this simpler.) All of these things happen, all day every day. NOW they call into question the legitimacy of these institutions. NOW they get called conspiracy theories; a tool to protect the institution from this questioning.

[1] Anton, Andreas, Michael Schetsche, and Michael K. Walter. "Einleitung: Wirklichkeitskonstruktion zwischen Orthodoxie und Heterodoxie–zur Wissenssoziologie von Verschwörungstheorien." Konspiration: Soziologie des Verschwörungsdenkens (2014): 9-25. [2] Goffman, Erving. "The insanity of place." Psychiatry 32, no. 4 (1969): 357-388.

Never mind having a gun on hand.