Ethiopian airline crash

[SWP's back]

i bet theres few familys wishing their loved ones had the same mindset about now :(

And plenty are glad that their loved ones don’t have the same mindset and get to see them more often.

The only person that you harm is yourself, there’s a huge, beautiful, interesting and awe inspiring world out there and you’re gonna miss it.

You’ve more chance of dying in a house fire in your sleep or falling and killing yourself on the stairs let alone driving or walking to and from work than you are to die in a plane crash. The odds are 16m to 1. That’s less than the chance of being struck by lightening and you’re more likely to win the lottery.

There were 3,000,000,000 (that’s 3 billion) commercial flight journeys in 2017 and not a single death. That made flying, statistically, the safest thing you could have been doing. Safer than football or fishing or crown green bowls. Over the same time, and despite only having 75m inhabitants, 2,000 died on the roads in the UK.

You’re not afraid of driving or being a passenger as not each and every death makes headline news.

 

[nellyonthewing]

737 Max 8 Again!!!!???

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

Ironically i have been watching air crash investigation series for past 3 to 4 days and today this happens. Traggic indeed! RIP

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

And plenty are glad that their loved ones don’t have the same mindset and get to see them more often.

The only person that you harm is yourself, there’s a huge, beautiful, interesting and awe inspiring world out there and you’re gonna miss it.

You’ve more chance of dying in a house fire in your sleep or falling and killing yourself on the stairs let alone driving or walking to and from work than you are to die in a plane crash. The odds are 16m to 1. That’s less than the chance of being struck by lightening and you’re more likely to win the lottery.

There were 3,000,000,000 (that’s 3 billion) commercial flight journeys in 2017 and not a single death. That made flying, statistically, the safest thing you could have been doing. Safer than football or fishing or crown green bowls. Over the same time, and despite only having 75m inhabitants, 2,000 died on the roads in the UK.

You’re not afraid of driving or being a passenger as not each and every death makes headline news.

Crown green bowls is pretty intense for the oldies. They don’t half get worked up!

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

 

[crazyg]

I seem to remember that our resident Captain Oveur, aka @ChicagoBlue , flies this particular aircraft now. Perhaps he may be able to give us some further information on this latest tragedy?

RIP to all involved.

 

[mackenzie]

yet people laugh when i say i will never set foot on a plane..

I used to say that too; I had a terrible fear and never thought I'd ever fly. Aged 51 I managed it for the first time. Just as well I did as my son and granddaughter now live in the Czech Republic and I've managed two trips now. On my own! ;-) Plus I've visited other countries that I never dreamed of seeing.
It was the fear of the unknown at first. I'll never be comfortable with it but it's certainly broadened my horizons.

 

[Bluemanc100]

Some crazy fuckers on the roads nowadays. I drive every day on the motorways for the job and see some hideous driving, nearly always by men under 30 in either cars or white vans.

It’s worse at weekends ...

 

[Silvas' left eyebrow]

And plenty are glad that their loved ones don’t have the same mindset and get to see them more often.

The only person that you harm is yourself, there’s a huge, beautiful, interesting and awe inspiring world out there and you’re gonna miss it.

You’ve more chance of dying in a house fire in your sleep or falling and killing yourself on the stairs let alone driving or walking to and from work than you are to die in a plane crash. The odds are 16m to 1. That’s less than the chance of being struck by lightening and you’re more likely to win the lottery.

There were 3,000,000,000 (that’s 3 billion) commercial flight journeys in 2017 and not a single death. That made flying, statistically, the safest thing you could have been doing. Safer than football or fishing or crown green bowls. Over the same time, and despite only having 75m inhabitants, 2,000 died on the roads in the UK.

You’re not afraid of driving or being a passenger as not each and every death makes headline news.

Apparently more people are killed each year by vending machines than plane crashes......no concellation I know.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Crown green bowls is pretty intense for the oldies. They don’t half get worked up!

I got a few oldies worked up as a kid in the park with my mate. We'd watch them bowl to a Jack and land within millimetres of it. We would pick the bowl up and bowl it back and say - "is this you bowl Mr"?....... "Bugger off you cheeky little sods" was often the Reply.