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		njarboe on June 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Redesigning the Economy Airline Seat I wonder what the crash rate of western airlines are at this point? For fatalities it is about 0/year. Maybe it is time to re-evaluate plane interiors for the trade-off between safety and comfort.

askafriend on June 2, 2018 [–]

What you want is turbulence frequency and severity, not crash rate.

I suspect metrics like these are what primarily drive these kinds of decisions rather than crashes since actual crashes are super rare.

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