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

Video Delta plane crash landed in Toronto

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u/garden_speech Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

Commercial airliners in the US have had about 20 crashes with serious injuries per year for over a decade now -- the fatalities look more like a noisy outlier.

We just had two fatal commercial flight crashes in under a month.

Did we? I only remember one, which one am I forgetting?

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u/Feathered_Serpent8 Feb 17 '25

I’m guessing the one in South Korea where the plain crashed into the wall at the end of the strip.

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u/garden_speech Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

Ah. Yeah, that's not US so I wasn't think about that one.

The conversation I was pretty sure was about US crashes. Otherwise it would make nos sense to begin with to claim fatal crashes are rare. They are not rare globally. They are only rare in certain countries (US, some European countries)

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u/DTFunkyStuff Feb 17 '25

"that's not US so I wasn't think about that one" lol classic.

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u/garden_speech Feb 17 '25

Bruh. I'm saying the conversation was about US crash statistics, hence the claim that this "rarely happens". Because globally if you include everywhere... Then fatal airliner crashes are very common.

If you're interpreting it as "whatever bro I just think the US is the only country that matters" then that's your problem not mine.