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chiliad_nodi
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No, that is ridiculous.
You mess up in a plane, you go doun.
You mess up in a car, 7 people go down.

You mess up in a plane, you have 3,000 feet to catch yourself
You mess up in a car well...

Your engine fails in a plane, you glide to earth.
Your engine fails on earth you crash.

Anybody can get a licence, but a pilot's licence takes hours of flight time.

In a car, there is no control tower...

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blondyboy
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plane
a plane can get hi jacked it can have something wrong it could have a lunatic on their and the peanuts wont come out

cars
a car can get in a crash but they have airbags seatbealts ( its not anybodys fault that thier so stupid not to use em ) and they have a soft chair



who wins PLANE

Crunk88
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Planes are more dangerous, obviously. But there are many people that aretrying to make it alo safer and its working. Cars are dangerous too, there are too many young drivers out there that are getting into crashes because they are over confident and dont have the experience.

blondyboy
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also they plane is the safest way and cars have drunk drivers as it would be hard to be flying a plane drunk

dillsoccer
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no........simple look at los angelos for an example how many gets back safe if their driving from coast to coast when a plane doesnt even have to worry about hitting anything except for birds so wut do u think

GreatestSoloEver
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Walking on the street as dangerous as being on a plain it is all up to fate

Armed_Blade
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Look, Maybe 1 or a few more plane crashes happen every year. And with all the 4,000 planes flying around everyday theres almost no traffic. You can't crash, have a retadred pilot, so your basically safe. In driving, a moron could hit you, you could make a teeny mistake, and bam. Even though a plane hit is fatal, its .0001% of happening to you.

Megamickel
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A head-on crash with another plane, sure. But what about when the plane hits the ground? It's been known to happen. And it can cause serious injuries. Even death. But 80% of plane crashes are survivable. That's 80%. If you crash five times, you live four.

DecadentDragon
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Cars don't have autopilot engaged while you're talking on your cell phone.

If getting a driver's license was anything like getting a pilot's license, we'd have some safe roads.

DivineDarkness
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When planes crash in the ocean and start on fire and they start to sink, the odds of surviving are verry verry slim, the odds of a car rolloing into the river are slim because cars have grip (unlike those cheap suvs) that and even then if ur smart youd open the door and get out before it starts to sink. the longer you wait the harder it is to open the door because of air pressure and force of the water, and even if u did wait til it was at the bottom, the pressure would crack the wind shield, and ud swim out, can u do that with a plane window? yes but scince there double lined it would ahve to be really really deep.

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But 80% of plane crashes are survivable. That's 80%. If you crash five times, you live four.

Haha, I'd like to see that one tested. I think the last bit is subject to Law of Large Numbers.

"So, if we crash lots of times, then the number of times we'll die eventually converges on 1 in 5!"

This sounds like a job for Bruce Willis.

dirkpitt1
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Its proven: more people die from car accidents than from planes crashing. Plane crashes rarely ever happen, the plane is inspected and refeuled every before every flight just to make sure it doesnt happen

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true, the only reason people belive that Planes are more dangerouse is because of the massive loss of live during a crash and anyway you have a 53% of surviving and only 1 in 10.46 million and wheras 1 person dies every 13mins! in a car crash...

opentotruth
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statisticly cars are much more dangerous than planes are. Car accidents happen three times more often than a plane going down.

subarublue89
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The chances of a plane even crashing is one in 1 billion. I think a car is much more dangerous because anything can happen. Drunk drivers, animals, people, anything.

AJWolf_7
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obviosly a plane is way safer than a car. all the reporters all say that because it is true. there has been way more car crashes than plane crashes and most of the time when a car crashes it takes out another car and can start a pileup. a plane can't take out another plane. also the pilots are very trained and took years of flight school.

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