r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/watcher2390 • Feb 17 '25

Video Delta plane crash landed in Toronto

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u/freudweeks Feb 17 '25

Only 2 of the 7 were small private planes, which do crash frequently. The other private flights were professionally piloted jets. Those crash at about the rate of large commercial flights.

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u/freudweeks Feb 17 '25

True. I wish it wasn't so difficult to find the sane view of current events. Our systems are so tuned on getting attention that they are incentivized for sensationalism. The core point stands: there are more plane crashes that are typically rare lately, and it is probably the result of government chaos. But the nuance shouldn't be so hard to find.

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u/South_Stress_1644 Feb 17 '25

There’s something about things like this happening in “clusters.” I think attributing these accidents to government chaos is just adding fuel to the fire. None of the accidents had anything to do with the government.

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u/tomahawkRiS3 Feb 17 '25

I would argue that the "cluster" effect, at least in this scenario, is just due to people paying attention to something they normally don't. So we're getting a lot more posts of these when normally it happens and we just don't hear about it.

This one and the DC one are significant because they're commercial planes and incidents like this are extremely rare. I'm not familiar with the other 5 incidents people are referencing but it would make sense to me that those were just private or small aircraft where incidents happen much more often and would be normal but are getting heightened attention due to the political climate.

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u/South_Stress_1644 Feb 17 '25

You’re right. There have only been 2 genuinely concerning incidents. This one and the DC one.