EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappears
May 19th 2016, 9:00 am
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EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappears
What a waste and what a tragedy 
My heart goes out to the families and friends affected but is it me or has the frequency of these disasters increased a bit over the past 2 years?
EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappears from radar - BBC News
My heart goes out to the families and friends affected but is it me or has the frequency of these disasters increased a bit over the past 2 years?
EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappears from radar - BBC News
May 19th 2016, 9:34 am
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Re: EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappears
What a waste and what a tragedy
My heart goes out to the families and friends affected but is it me or has the frequency of these disasters increased a bit over the past 2 years?
EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappears from radar - BBC News
My heart goes out to the families and friends affected but is it me or has the frequency of these disasters increased a bit over the past 2 years?
EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappears from radar - BBC News
May 19th 2016, 1:43 pm
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May 19th 2016, 3:18 pm
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Well after 1980 it seems to be more random than anything, with juuuuust a slight downward gradient
May 20th 2016, 2:39 am
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Sisi, tourism industry officials, tour guides and hotel owners must be crappin bricks.
May 20th 2016, 2:57 am
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That statistic might be more informative to come to any relative conclusion.
May 20th 2016, 9:30 am
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I'd guess that's an upward trend, which would make the decreasing trend in the original graph more significant if converted to fatalities per flight, passenger journey or passenger mile.
May 20th 2016, 2:50 pm
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According to google the chances of dying in a plane is 1 in 11 million as opposed to 1 in 5000 in a car so it still is considered safe. And I agree that the number of flights have actually increased in the past 10 years so the number of deaths per year, even if they remained static would actually depict a downward trend. Here is an interesting thought : I wonder if we can take the number of deaths caused by radicalism / deliberate acts of sabotage etc out of the number of total fatalities make 2 separate graphs of those numbers. The former would probably be upwards and the latter would definitely be downwards
May 20th 2016, 3:06 pm
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Yes, thats a fair comment, I hadnt taken that in account at all tbh.
According to google the chances of dying in a plane is 1 in 11 million as opposed to 1 in 5000 in a car so it still is considered safe. And I agree that the number of flights have actually increased in the past 10 years so the number of deaths per year, even if they remained static would actually depict a downward trend. Here is an interesting thought : I wonder if we can take the number of deaths caused by radicalism / deliberate acts of sabotage etc out of the number of total fatalities make 2 separate graphs of those numbers. The former would probably be upwards and the latter would definitely be downwards
According to google the chances of dying in a plane is 1 in 11 million as opposed to 1 in 5000 in a car so it still is considered safe. And I agree that the number of flights have actually increased in the past 10 years so the number of deaths per year, even if they remained static would actually depict a downward trend. Here is an interesting thought : I wonder if we can take the number of deaths caused by radicalism / deliberate acts of sabotage etc out of the number of total fatalities make 2 separate graphs of those numbers. The former would probably be upwards and the latter would definitely be downwards
Accident statistics
May 23rd 2016, 4:26 pm
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Curious that this story has just disappeared from the media, especially in the French press considering 15 of their own were on that flight
May 23rd 2016, 4:33 pm
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On average, 37 people would have died in car accidents in France since then...
May 24th 2016, 10:43 am
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Well, the gyppos think it was a bomb. Not that I trust anything they say:
"CAIRO, May 24 (Reuters) - Human remains retrieved from the crashed EgyptAir flight suggest that there was an explosion on board the plane, although no traces of explosives have been detected, an Egyptian forensics official and investigation sources said on Tuesday.
The official based his assessment on the small size of body parts so far recovered from the Mediterranean Sea, where EgyptAir flight 804 crashed on Thursday.
"The size of the remains points towards an explosion, the biggest part was the size of a palm," the forensics official said, adding that about 23 bags of body parts had been collected since Sunday. " - Reuters
"CAIRO, May 24 (Reuters) - Human remains retrieved from the crashed EgyptAir flight suggest that there was an explosion on board the plane, although no traces of explosives have been detected, an Egyptian forensics official and investigation sources said on Tuesday.
The official based his assessment on the small size of body parts so far recovered from the Mediterranean Sea, where EgyptAir flight 804 crashed on Thursday.
"The size of the remains points towards an explosion, the biggest part was the size of a palm," the forensics official said, adding that about 23 bags of body parts had been collected since Sunday. " - Reuters
