[quote=markmax33®]Airplane pilots and flight engineers likely receive more training than cops, yet the death rate is much higher. And their unions are fairly strong.
It was BG, not EconProf who invoked job safety. Right or wrong, cops&firefighters are sucking on the same tit that’s feeding the banksters. And unlike banksters they are instrument of oppression in the hand of the ruling class (i.e. banksters).[/quote]
The vast majority of airplane accidents/fatalities occur in general aviation, NOT commercial aviation which is where you have the highly-trained, highly-skilled, unionized pilots.
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“General aviation is typically defined as any noncommercial,
civil aviation that includes, but is not limited to, recreational
flying, pilot training flights, aerial acrobatics, aerial
application of insecticides or herbicides, aerial survey, sightseeing,
and aerial search and rescue. As of 1996, there were
187,312 registered general aviation aircraft in the United
States that flew a total of 26 million flight hours. Every year,
the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB;
Washington, DC) records approximately 2,000 general aviation
crashes, with an average of 765 fatalities. Even with
the recent decline in the number of general aviation crashes,
they remain the predominant source of aviation-related
fatalities. For example, in 1996, 98 percent of all aviation
crashes and 66 percent of all aviation fatalities were related
to general aviation (1).”
