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Old Jul 2, 2008 | 4:49 pm
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Originally Posted by oenophilist
Here is the citing from an article on the Air France crash in Toronto: "According to an NTSB study of 568 crashes between 1983 and 2000, only five percent of passengers were killed; the remaining 95 percent escaped unharmed or without life-threatening injuries."
If you use a pretty loose definition of "crash", sure. That's pretty much what the guy is saying anyway.

1. Plane has gear trouble and the pilot makes a nice belly landing = nearly everyone survives.

2. Plane comes hurtling from the sky and embeds itself in a field = nearly everyone dies.
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