John... We are talking 1937 here. Airline safety was no where near the 9sigma it flys under today. A lot of people died to get those numbers up. tim in san jose On 5/7/07, John Reddick <SVYOLO@yahoo.com> wrote: > > 1,000,000 miles before an accident is nothing to brag about. Neither is 1 > crash out of 650 flights. Any commercial aircraft would be permanently > grounded if it reached 1/10,000 of either mishap rate. > > John >
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