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It’s possible this is statistically expected. In the same way the stock market randomly fluctuates, it would be implausible that the ATC incident rate should only ever go down.

The question is whether this is outside the variance we should expect. Is it?

I see a lot of people coming up with reasons and explanations, implying that the incident rate can be controlled. To an extent it can. But it can’t be decreased forever, especially as the fleet increases. Is there a graph of the incident rate with respect to fleet size over the last few decades?




True, and a 68% increase in something that rarely happens isn’t as scary when you look at the actual total number of incidents.




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