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2 dead after 2 small planes collide midair in Arizona, officials say (www.cnn.com)

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Even with the past month of aviation incidents, January’s preliminary data from the NTSB shows there was a record low number of airplane accidents nationwide among private and commercial flights.

Enjoy the moment, it's not gonna last.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Wondering about this category of accidents they are talking about because two planes ploughing into each should be a class of its own I feel.

[–] eatCasserole@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

And the following sentence:

Before the January 29 collision, the last major fatal airplane accident involving a US carrier was in 2009,

So yeah, January 29th. The rest were February. Of course one single incident in January, and several more in February, isn't going to have a huge impact on the number of incidents in January. February is what we should be talking about.

I have to assume that the actual message being obfuscated here is "please keep buying plane tickets, you still probably won't die and even if you do it's just really important for our up-going line."