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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I consciously do not fly United or the Max anymore, but other than that, no issues for me.[/quote]

Cool, so you never ride in a car either, right?  Also never swim?[/quote]

I worked in safety at the NTSB after a short stint as an airline pilot, but keep acting like you know everything.[/quote]

How are you mitigating the 1000x higher risk of death from participating in those activities, versus flying on a Boeing airplane?[/quote]

You're kidding, right? I need to drive. I don't need to fly on a specific aircraft or specific airline. [/quote]

Not really- I sometimes go weeks without getting in a car.  We all make choices and implicit risk calculations.  You have accepted the relatively large underlying risk of car accidents as part of your life, likely because of where you live- which is totally understandable in America.  But you are trying to reduce a much much smaller level of risk by controlling for type of airplane or manufacturer or airline.  Of course you probably don't "have to" ever get on an airplane, but you choose to because it's faster and easier.

We all take these trade-offs all the time- usually it's more risk for less money.  I have sometimes driven to New York instead of taking the train, because it was much cheaper for last minute trip.  I knew my personal safety risk was much higher for driving, and accepted that, for better or worse, because of the lower cost.

I just think it's funny to be parsing out risk for things with billion to one odds, when you have much higher risk activities you undertake on an almost daily basis, that you could radically reduce your risk much more by cutting back/down.[/quote]

I have a masters degree in risk management, thanks. But I also spent 10 years looking at the (sorry for the TMI, but literally bloody) results of flights gone wrong. I lower my driving risk by not driving drunk or fatigued, and I lower my aviation risk by not flying certain aircraft. I don't fly v-tail Bonanzas as a pilot because of their poor climb-out characteristics, either - are you going to criticize me for that?[/quote]

That's great because if those 10 years were between 2009-2024, not a single one of those bloody results would have been on commercial flights in the US (other than a single person on that Southwest plane in 2018 where the engine failed).

If you avoid United/Boeing and that leads you to taking a flight with a connection instead of a nonstop, I'll bet you are multiplying your risk by 10x by adding another set of takeoff/landing.  Let me know if I got the numbers right on that.[/quote]

I assume you mean FAR 121 flights, because yes, some were, in fact, "commercial flights." And no, I do not [b]use connections unless necessary[/b]. [/quote]

Well that's my point- if flying from the DC area, United is the only nonstop option to a number of destinations.[/quote]

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