Originally Posted by
erik123
I understand this is common in royal families - E.g. the Queen won't fly with Charles.
I also assume the president doesn't fly with the vice president.
A good example of what can happen is the Polish government plane crashing in Russia, killing scores of senior government/defense officials including the president. The vice president wasn't on that plane.
I would think having multiple heads of state/monarchs/heirs or vices to same/etc on one plane would increase the odds of that particular plane being a target of the terrorists (whose numbers are increasing 10-40 fold?)
Hardly a fair comparison to the other 99.9999% of us regular slubs, some of whom obviously can't think critically about risk. Of course random crashes due to malfunction/error/etc don't apply here but still seems silly to me for average folk