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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: "A Design Proposal That Would Make Passenger Planes Safe"
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> The question to ask is: "Is the general public willing to fly in an airplane
> that is designed to crash?"
>
> Safety doesn't sell; ask the auto industry.

There was a recent article in Aviation Consumer that picked the airplanes
in each of several categories with the best and worst safety records.
In essentially all cases, the safest airplane was the most popular,
by a fairly wide margin.  Are you still sure safety doesn't sell?