re: #561 Walter L. Newton

My point is still, most plane crashes are not being shot down, or breaking up due to a bomb or any of those other “slow” crashes. The common plain vanilla crashes are over in seconds, and that’s the sort that most people would encounter (for a few seconds).

Except the actual statistics disagree. Theres a 47% everyone will live in a plane crash, and even in 53% of crashes where people die, you still have a 25% chance of survival. Essentially your odds of living through a plane crash are, by my math: 47%+ 53%(0.25) = 60.25%. So for most people, it’s not over quickly.it’s not over at all.