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		znq 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: London-bound plane carrying over 200 people crashe... It’s probably just a coincidence, but there seem to have been significantly more aviation incidents in the past two years than in the previous 40 years of my lifetime.

m4tthumphrey 7 months ago | [–]

No one can be bothered to do their jobs properly anymore. Everyone is lazy and wants to do the bare minimum.

throwaway843 7 months ago | [–]

That's because you're biased to recall recent thungs.

znq 7 months ago | [–]

Found a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...

znq 7 months ago | | [–]

Also this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_inciden... with a good table overview

throwaway843 7 months ago | | [–]

Which should make it clear there have been significantly less incidents over the past two years than in the 38 years preceeding.

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