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Old Dec 28, 2012 | 9:29 am
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Originally Posted by airmotive
The ridiculous claim that allowing lap-babies saves lives because parents would otherwise drive to see grandma instead of paying for an airline seat for their children is asinine.
Sorry, but simple statistics prove this wrong.

Deaths per Billion KM:
Air: 0.05
Bus: 0.4
Rail: 0.6
Auto: 3.1

Old data, but I doubt the relative numbers have changed.

I don't find it hard to believe that at least 1.5% of air travelers would chose to drive instead of stay home, were they forced to buy additional seats.

Find me more than 1 lap-child death this year. I can provide you thousands of child deaths by auto.

While any child death is a tragedy, nothing is perfectly safe - don't make the good worse by trying to be perfect.
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