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Military jets aren't really comparable. The pilots have signed up for a job with an elevated risk of death, and they are often asked to do far riskier things like "go dogfight this MIG near the North Korean border" or whatever. The "acceptable" level of fatalities in military aviation exists, whereas in passenger flights it's basically treated as zero.


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