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Old Mar 15, 2008, 3:47 am
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trooper
 
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If you refuse to fly on Indonesian airlines for safety reasons.. then I certainly hope you apply an equally severe probability-of-death calculation to every other aspect of your life.... just to be consistent you understand...

So... one can only assume you never, ever travel in any kind of motorised vehicle on a public road..... and if "life is short" in Indonesia... one wonders WHY you keep on going there!

No matter which airline you fly the flight will be safer (statistically) than the trip to the airport.... It can be argued that the airline industrys measure.. "passenger miles" tilts the field in their direction (on that basis, so the joke goes, the safest human endeavours ever in the transport field were the Apollo missions to the moon...).. but it is hard to see what other measure is appropriate...

...and I suppose BA is out now too? Well, they did have a crash recently......
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