On 2006-09-30, Judah wrote:
The odds of dying from choking ("Inhalation and Ingestion of food causing
obstruction of respirator track") is 4284 to 1, so just slightly higher than
flying. So basically, eating is slightly more dangerous than flying.

You mentioned proportionality, and then threw it out of the window.

270 million Americans eat probably at least twice a day. There are only
600,000 pilots - with only 300,000 estimated as being active GA pilots.
A very active GA pilot will probably fly perhaps around 3 times a week.

To say eating is slightly more dangerous than flying is so wrong it
isn't even wrong. Your position seems to be one of denial (incidentally,
one of the hazardous attitudes we are all taught about in training)
rather than level-headed knowledge.

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