The age old adage is that it’s safer to fly than to drive. Less traffic, less accidents, and less drunk drivers (right…?) But when you’re in a tin can surrounded by 800 people (and children) 30,000 feet above the ground with 25000 gallons of jet fuel and a science we still don’t even understand keeping you aloft, are you really safe?
Millions of drivers are on the road every day, and most of them are texting, talking or singing along to the radio.
But then you see a story that came out this month. An engine explodes on a Southwest flight, and shatters a window, pulling a woman out into the open air, to later die of the wounds caused by the trauma. And it reminds you, air travel is crazy. It’s not like you can just roll down a window and catch a breeze. You can’t pull over if you get engine trouble. And you can’t get out if you get a little sick.
And you know, you’re way up in the air, sitting in a chair, on technology you couldn’t explain if your life depended on it.
So what’s safer? What do you trust? And if you have to go across the country, how do you do it?
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