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Escalating scandal grips airlines including American and Southwest, as nearly 100 planes find fake parts from company with fake employees that vanished overnight::Why are so many flights getting canceled or delayed? Blame a mysterious British supplier accused of falsified documents for plane components.

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[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It's kinda weird actually how normalized driving is. There's a lot of people who are so scared of flying that they won't do it. But far fewer people take such an approach to being in a personal vehicle, despite being massively more dangerous.

I think it's because car deaths are just so normalized that most people are numb to them. It's kinda like that iconic Joker monologue about how it's "all according to the plan". People are afraid of exemplary things, not the mundane things that will actually kill them.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Also, not driving is not really an option in a lot of places. Driving terrifies me, but I just have to deal or not eat 🤷‍♂️

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I’m personally more afraid of driving. The learning and tests for pilots are extensive (I’ve done a lot of it), but any moron can get a driving license, and most lose much of that knowledge shortly after.

Other drivers are fucking scary.

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