"Jay Honeck" wrote in news:1145762260.574792.162910
@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com:

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I guess the point is that flying is far less forgiving of "stupid
tricks" than driving. Extracting them from both sets of statistics
therefore WON'T result in a straight line, equivalent change of fatal
incidents.

Yeah, but the point is also that flying is far less forgiving of _ANY_
exception than driving.