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		newsoul2019 on June 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The age of electric flight is finally upon us Wait, that's an astonishing number of would-be crashes.

rootusrootus on June 21, 2019 [–]

A quick google search shows a page from the FAA saying that typically a couple hundred planes crash each year, and a few hundred people die. There's an order of magnitude more GA planes than commercial airliners.

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