Thread: Glider Safety
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Old February 22nd 10, 05:35 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tom Gardner
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Default Glider Safety

On Feb 22, 5:19*pm, michael case wrote:
Of course there are many ways to look at the numbers.


My favourite are the pair of statistics from the '70s, probably
still true today:
1 landing in commercial airliners is becoming safer
2 landing in commercial airliners is becoming more dangerous

1 is true for accidents per landing
2 is true for proportion of accidents while landing