The Starmaker wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:

The Starmaker wrote:
airplanes...all they do is CRASH!

Usenet cross-posters ... all they do is TROLL!

Who knows how many airplanes crash a year..thousands.

The NTSB knows:
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Stats.htm

A total of 534 aviation fatalities in 2009 in the U.S.

By comparison, allegedly 450 deaths per year occurred in the U.S. due
to people falling out of bed:


Are you comparing how many people are *in* bed with how many planes
there are in the air?

There are not 300 million airplanes in the sky...

But U.S. airlines carried 704 million passengers in 2009:

http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/20...bts029_10.html

(And that was a down year.)

Planes crash because....they run out of whatever keeps them up in the
air...

People crash out of bed because....they run out of safety blankets.

You put a washing machine in the air...you better have enough quaters
to keep it flying.

That's probably why bricks plummet to the ground: no place to insert
quarters.