Originally Posted by SweetT

How about this....

I remember reading a stat somewhere that said that over the past 5 years you were more likely to die in a plane crash standing on the ground than you were if you were in the plane. The rational was that there were a number of incidents where aircraft had hit homes, or had debris fall from them in mid air, and there were even a few where a plane skidded off the runway and hit cars on the road all resulting in death. That was coupled with the very few actual crashes that resulted in death over recent years.

I know it sounds hard to believe but it was believable at the time.


--T