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London-bound plane carrying over 200 people crashes after take-off in India
- znq 1y agoIt’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 1y agoNo one can be bothered to do their jobs properly anymore. Everyone is lazy and wants to do the bare minimum.
- throwaway843 1y agoThat's because you're biased to recall recent thungs.
- znq 1y agoFound a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
- znq 1y agoAlso this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_inciden... with a good table overview
- throwaway843 1y agoWhich should make it clear there have been significantly less incidents over the past two years than in the 38 years preceeding.
- m4tthumphrey 1y agoSeems like they lost power? https://x.com/georgiameloniii/status/1933091545248641248 https://x.com/georgiameloniii/status/1933091545248641248
- znq 1y agoSupposedly a Boeing 787 Dreamliner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner