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Mechanics routinely forget to bolt the wheels onto cars, which has caused and continues to cause actual traffic deaths.

Nobody floods into the comment sections on HN when this happens because people dying in cars is depressingly normal but planes are so unimaginably safe that a person hypothetically getting sucked out of a plane is strange and terrifying.



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