Again, there is 1 major accident with fatalities every 40 million commercial flights.
There is a fireball at less than 1 in 200 million flights.
You have no clue how rare failures are in modern commercial planes, let alone catastrophic fireball failures. I think it's because you don't have an intuitive grasp of many planes fly each day around the world.
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Originally Posted by Shuffle
When did the U.S. military shoot down a civilian aircraft in a non-combat zone, let alone one taking off from a major American airport like Laguardia or LAX? This didn't even happen during 911 when planes were flying into the Pentagon and circling over the White House.
I don't think you have any idea what you are talking about, or don't have any appreciation for the gross incompetence, lack of training and oversight that would be needed for Iran's military to have accidentally shot down a civilian airplane taking off from Tehran. It's not something that would ever happen unless they did it on purpose. Maybe you don't realize there are actually no wars in Iran, there is no combat zone there, no missiles being fired at them, nothing.
We're rapidly approaching peak clown with his post. The Iranians just shot a lot of missiles at the US and are on high alert for a revenge attack, with all their anti missile/anti aircraft systems fired up no doubt. You think this is like the US military with LAX?
You do realize that stuff goes wrong? If you think the odds are a vanishly tiny 1 in 100,000 that something goes wrong with missile systems being turned on and tested, or rogue actors, or deliberate sabotage in a highly charged environment gearing up for a possible attack, then it's still >99.9% not an accident. We have the US, Russian and Ukranian military all accidentally shooting down planes. These are data points for how common shoot downs are. But Iran wouldn't do that. No sir. They're highly trained!
Last edited by ToothSayer; 01-08-2020 at 12:18 PM.