by "Morgans" Apr 19, 2006 at 10:41 AM


"Dylan Smith" wrote

Well, it's "statistically inevitable" that a 40-tonne articulated
truck will one day run off a road and into a sports field full of kids.
Let's ban trucks. It's "statistically inevitable" that a car, being
driven purely for recreational purposes, will leave the road and plough
into a line of school children waiting for the bus. Let's ban cars!

As far as that goes, school busses have killed more kids than airplane
crashes. Let's ban them




Your points are well taken. But, reality bites: if a small plane crash
burns down a house or kills kids in a playground, there will be an uproar.
This is because there is alot of antipathy towards GA, and because someone
flying for kicks that accidently causes death and mayhem will receive
greater criticism than a school bus crash. School busses are necessary.
Flying around in a cessna for fun is not.