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> safety is getting worse

Record passenger miles flown [1] with years of zero fatalities since, I believe, 2020 [2][3] refutes this hypothesis.

My point is: the wall blew out. That’s never happened before. We should not allow this to be okay because no one died this time.

Overall statistics improving doesn’t mean you have permission to start throwing a random person off the plane every year.

There’s an xkcd about an online seller and a bobcat…