Originally Posted by xxweekxx

eh Concorde was a flawed airplane.. the reason airplanes are so safe is because we learned from mistakes.. there was silly crashes decades ago and they found faults like bad cargo door design, etc... and thats why the airplanes are so safe..

An airplane maintained very well will reduce crashes..

i mean there are some AIRLINES that are yet to see a fatal crash, Virgin atlantic comes to mind...

Remember like i said, these airplanes are built amazingly well.. like i said, its not like your car where the radiator goes bad before you fix it.. airplanes get inspected and shit gets replaced before it even goes bad.. if cars were maintained this way they would never go bad..

Imagine getting new transmission at 10k miles, new engine at 20k miles, new axle/suspension at 15k miles, new radiator/compressor at 5k miles, etc.. this is how airplanes work.. they dont wait for the part to go bad, they replace them on a maintenance schedule..

just another useful tip, if you are on an airplane, say an airbus a330, and one engine goes bad.. you are not dead.. the airplane can FLY on that other engine for hours.. they would just have to decrease altitude, and the auto pilot will actually fuck with the controls so it adjusts for the side with the dead engine since its creating drag..

basically one engine lost doesnt mean death in today's aircrafts..

plus chances of losing 2 engines in a single flight are like one in a billion. not gonna happen.. the engines are independent of each other, have seperate systems, fuel tanks, etc...
anyway i can go on and on, but everytime iget on an airplane i feel safer than when i get in a car...

and ps airplanes are much much safer than driving.. if you decide to drive from NY to CALI, you have a way greater chance of dying than if you boarded a flight from NY to cali..