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the most statistically successful safety obsession in human history, and everyone still grips the armrest.
means the vast overlapping system of engineering, training, and rules that makes commercial flight the safest way to travel long distances.
from born from a century of crashes turned into lessons, every rule written in the blood of an earlier disaster nobody wants repeated.
death oddsabout 1 in 11 million flights
black boxactually bright orange, not black
safety demomost ignored, most rehearsed speech ever
redundancy ruleevery critical system has at least one backup