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What NASA Won't Tell You About Air Safety

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the wtb-better-drugs dept.

rabble writes "According to a report out of Washington, NASA wants to avoid telling you about how unsafe you are when you fly. According to the article, when an $8.5M safety study of about 24,000 pilots indicated an alarming number of near collisions and runway incidents, NASA refused to release the results. The article quotes one congressman as saying 'There is a faint odor about it all.' A friend of mine who is a general aviation pilot responded to the article by saying 'It's scary but no surprise to those of us who fly.'"

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  1. He should have never stopped snorting coke by Pojut · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to the article, when an $8.5M safety study of about 24,000 pilots indicated an alarming number of near collisions and runway incidents, NASA refused to release the results.


    "When two planes almost collide, they call it a near miss....IT'S A NEAR HIT! A collision is a near miss...::BOOM::...look, they nearly missed."

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    Living With a Nerd
  2. Re:The really dangerous part about air travel.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also:

    Airline food (when you can get it)
    In-flight movies (once saw Dirty Dancing Havana Nights on both legs of a 1 stop flight from Vegas)
    Senators in the mens room

  3. Oh, yeah. by Estanislao+Mart�nez · · Score: 5, Funny

    Airline food (when you can get it)

    Important hint: DON'T PICK THE FISH.

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    Are you adequate?

  4. Real Reason for Incident Increase... by quite_sick · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...inexplicable rise in the number of home-made Nigerian helicopters and Sputniks crowding the airspace.