by Greg Farris Apr 18, 2006 at 06:07 PM


In article
outaviation.com,
says...


The one that kills several innocents on the ground is coming --
statistically inevitable. That will generate lots of negative press,
and
place safety, noise, pollution square in the public eye again. Boyer
will
be busy spinning bull****.



Well, if you're including larger turboprops, bizjets and airliners in
your

estimate you may be correct. However if you're referring to small singles

and twins, it's hard to understand how you can describe something that
virtually never happens as being "statistically inevitable".

Of course it's possible - a 172 could hit car on the freeway and slam
it

into another car or something - you almost need to find such a scenario,
where the destructive force invloved is greater than that engendered by
the
little plane itself, which was only the trigger event. Otherwise, small
planes crashing just don't pack enough destructive force to make the
killing
of several innocents on the ground "statistically inevitable".
Statistically, the most likely result, in fact, is that this will not
happen
any time soon.



Well, we shall see. If a 172 crashes into a house or business, killing
several people on the ground, there will be an outcry. Naturally, a small
plane will not result in hundreds of casualties, but if that one that
crashed on the sports field happened to hit kids on the ground.....