This is why I only use fatalities for accident statistics of any kind
to judge relative safety.
They are the only utterly consistently metric.

Bob Korves bkorves@winfirstDECIMALcom wrote:
I find the concept of "near-midairs" close to useless. One pilot's "near
miss" is another pilot's "sighting". If there was some way of accurately
and consistently measuring the distances and then quantifying large numbers
of results objectively then it _might_ be useful. Until then there are only
"hits" and "misses" in my book. "Hits" make the evening news, subjective
war stories shouldn't...
-Bob
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