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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: safety statistics
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Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 11:15:12 EST
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> which suggests car driving is safer. the fallacy is that car driving averages
> over a far larger number of people of reasonable driving skill.
> The aircraft figures are for a large number of low experience 
> and student pilots.

But the low experience and student pilots have a *very* good record.
It's almost always the experienced pilot who kills himself and his
family.
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug