Originally Posted by tristan727
Celebs/VIP's with their own, or chartered, airplanes & helicopters, seem to have a much higher chance of crashing - so no thanks.
Except the statistics don't hold up -- per pax/mile, you have a higher risk of being hit while crossing the street to the postbox. The difference being, you don't hear about those --
Most airline incidents aren't newsworthy after 24 hours, unless there's something REALLY spectacular (Lockerbie, Potomic, Sioux City, Everglades... ), but 60% of the general population couldn't begin to tell you about even those.
OTOH, lots of folks would have NO trouble identifying the Clear Lake, IA, crash of 1959... (fill in 3 names)
Major contributing factor in celebrity private/gen-av fatalities: "Get-There-Itis" Gives gen-av an undeserved bad rap.
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