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India pilots in mid-air wrestlemania

India pilots in mid-air wrestlemania

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8289313.stm

Geez, what's wrong with these guys deciding to have wrestlemania at 40,000 feet in a plane full of human passengers. Its a good thing they are noobs and cannot knock out each other with only one punch. Now passengers need not worry about terrorists on air but on the crew turning on each other !

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Looks like someone behaved badly and someoneelse was defending them selves. Mid air not the best time though yeah!

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ok that's settled it, i'm definitely going to india next year with that sort of in-flight entertainment.

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I am too scared to fly.

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Originally posted by MY BRAIN HURTS
I am too scared to fly.
statistically specking you're more likely to be killed on the way to the airport than you are while flying.

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That's good to know because I never go to the airport, so I'm safe.

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Originally posted by trev33
statistically [b]specking you're more likely to be killed on the way to the airport than you are while flying.[/b]
That statistic is misleading, that 'true' statistic is biased in favour of the likelihood of crashing per the number of miles travelled. When travelling by air you travel a much larger number of miles than you do to the airport, and as such when you look at the statistic per journey, plane crashes are much more likely than car crashes.
Indeed, statistically speaking, you are guaranteed to die horribly.

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Originally posted by MY BRAIN HURTS
That's good to know because I never go to the airport, so I'm safe.
🙄

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Originally posted by Bad wolf
That statistic is misleading, that 'true' statistic is biased in favour of the likelihood of crashing per the number of miles travelled. When travelling by air you travel a much larger number of miles than you do to the airport, and as such when you look at the statistic per journey, plane crashes are much more likely than car crashes.
Indeed, statistically speaking, you are guaranteed to die horribly.
how many commercial planes crashed in the past year? in that time how many people died on the roads? hhmmm

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Originally posted by trev33
how many commercial planes crashed in the past year? in that time how many people died on the roads? hhmmm
Airplanes carry a lot more people than cars, so more possible deaths in the event of a crash, there is also proportionally far fewer airplanes in the sky, than there are cars on the road. Both these would scew the statistics, all it takes is for an airplane to crash every few years to make it more dangerous than cars on a per journey basis.

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Originally posted by Bad wolf
Airplanes carry a lot more people than cars, so more possible deaths in the event of a crash, there is also proportionally far fewer airplanes in the sky, than there are cars on the road. Both these would scew the statistics, all it takes is for an airplane to crash every few years to make it more dangerous than cars on a per journey basis.
so we agree it's more dangerous on the road than in a plane. excellent.

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Originally posted by trev33
so we agree it's more dangerous on the road than in a plane. excellent.
Hardly, my point was that with fewer planes, despite less fatal crashes in absolute terms, those that do crash are a higher proportion of the total of airplanes in the sky, than say a single car crashing as a proportion of the total number of cars; making airplanes more dangerous.

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Originally posted by Bad wolf
Hardly, my point was that with fewer planes, despite less fatal crashes in absolute terms, those that do crash are a higher proportion of the total of airplanes in the sky, than say a single car crashing as a proportion of the total number of cars; making airplanes more dangerous.
finish this sentence for me. more people die on the roads of this earth than die in the air therefore......

a. it is statistically specking more dangerous on the roads than it is in the air.
b. it is statistically specking more dangerous on the roads than it is in the air.
c. it is statistically specking more dangerous on the roads than it is in the air.

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Originally posted by trev33
finish this sentence for me. more people die on the roads of this earth than die in the air therefore......

a. it is statistically specking more dangerous on the roads than it is in the air.
b. it is statistically specking more dangerous on the roads than it is in the air.
c. it is statistically specking more dangerous on the roads than it is in the air.
d) It is statistically specking relatively more dangerous in the air than on the road.

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Originally posted by Bad wolf
d) It is statistically specking relatively more dangerous in the air than on the road.
if time wasn't as issue, just safety and you were going from london to manchester would you fly or drive? trains are off and the cost is about the same.