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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 21 07:13:27 2024
    Singapore Airlines passenger dead after Boeing jet hits 'severe
    turbulence'

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Tue May 21 19:07:22 2024
    On Tue, 21 May 2024 07:13:27 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Singapore Airlines passenger dead after Boeing jet hits 'severe
    turbulence'

    The incident happened after the plane fell a whopping 6000 feet.

    "Suddenly the aircraft starts tilting up and there was shaking so I
    started bracing for what was happening, and very suddenly there was a
    very dramatic drop so everyone seated and not wearing seatbelt was
    launched immediately into the ceiling," a passenger said.

    https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1792929488730194207

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri May 24 15:21:24 2024
    On Tue, 21 May 2024, JAB wrote:

    On Tue, 21 May 2024 07:13:27 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Singapore Airlines passenger dead after Boeing jet hits 'severe
    turbulence'

    The incident happened after the plane fell a whopping 6000 feet.

    "Suddenly the aircraft starts tilting up and there was shaking so I
    started bracing for what was happening, and very suddenly there was a
    very dramatic drop so everyone seated and not wearing seatbelt was
    launched immediately into the ceiling," a passenger said.

    https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1792929488730194207


    This happened to me once. Of course not close to this event, but the
    turbulence was big enough for people to start to scream and I was close to
    hit my head on the seat in front of me. Lucky for me, I'm a "always seat
    belt on" guy.

    The weather must have been very violent that week, because a colleague of
    mine flying the same route a day before or after (can't remember)
    experienced a complete power loss due to a lightning strike (perhaps?). He
    said it was a spooky feeling sitting there in the dark until the captain
    said there was no need to worry and that they had the backup power online
    soon.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to adhellman1@gmail.com on Fri May 24 15:43:06 2024
    On Fri, 24 May 2024 16:06:20 -0400, Auric Hellman
    <adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:

    The others

    "If you look at fatalities per billion miles traveled, airplanes are
    clearly safer. If you look at fatalities per trip, trains are almost
    six times safer! But what is clear is that both modes of
    transportation are extremely safe compared to buses and cars"

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Auric Hellman on Sat May 25 14:48:30 2024
    On Fri, 24 May 2024, Auric Hellman wrote:

    On 5/24/2024 9:21 AM, D wrote:


    On Tue, 21 May 2024, JAB wrote:

    On Tue, 21 May 2024 07:13:27 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    Singapore Airlines passenger dead after Boeing jet hits 'severe
    turbulence'

    The incident happened after the plane fell a whopping 6000 feet.

    "Suddenly the aircraft starts tilting up and there was shaking so I
    started bracing for what was happening, and very suddenly there was a
    very dramatic drop so everyone seated and not wearing seatbelt was
    launched immediately into the ceiling," a passenger said.

    https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1792929488730194207


    This happened to me once. Of course not close to this event, but the
    turbulence was big enough for people to start to scream and I was close to >> hit my head on the seat in front of me. Lucky for me, I'm a "always seat
    belt on" guy.

    The weather must have been very violent that week, because a colleague of
    mine flying the same route a day before or after (can't remember)
    experienced a complete power loss due to a lightning strike (perhaps?). He >> said it was a spooky feeling sitting there in the dark until the captain
    said there was no need to worry and that they had the backup power online
    soon.


    Flying is always makes me a little nervous. Where as other modes of transportation may statistically be more dangerous, only flying gives you that 90 second to two minute warning that you are about to die a horrible death. The others, you don't know until it happens.

    Interesting perspective! I'll save that as a conversation starter the next
    time I attend a party! =) (No, I don't care much for boring polite
    subject) ;)

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat May 25 14:50:44 2024
    On Fri, 24 May 2024, JAB wrote:

    On Fri, 24 May 2024 16:06:20 -0400, Auric Hellman
    <adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:

    The others

    "If you look at fatalities per billion miles traveled, airplanes are
    clearly safer. If you look at fatalities per trip, trains are almost
    six times safer! But what is clear is that both modes of
    transportation are extremely safe compared to buses and cars"

    I will only go for train if the train works as well as in Japan. In
    europe, in the countries I most frequently live in, trains are a complete
    joke unless you're talking about the subway.

    Now I imagine, take japanese trains, and then double the speed and there
    would be no way I would ever use a plane in mainland japan.

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