• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      For planes with a stewardess, 90% of passengers survive a crash.

      A plane plunging into the ocean is not the most common type of crash. That vast majority of flights are over land.

      But also most crashes happen close to the airport because that whole taking off part is the riskiest, most fuel so most weight. Landing is the second most common but and leans towards pilot error.

      So it’s best for the entire flight crew to be sober for take off and landing.

    • Laser@feddit.org
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      Probably, but then again that’s not the only possible accident; she was planned on an intercontinental flight that day, but it could just have been Rome or something; and even over the ocean, an aircraft has rafts, it might not save you in the very middle, but if you go down close to a coast, you want the crew to be able to handle emergency equipment and not be tipsy