They are so big and it seems like so much could go wrong yet they are statistically extremely successful.
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Historically, the airline industry has been very regulated. The pilots required training, the planes require a minimum level of maintenance, the people in the “tower”, the flight traffic controllers require training, and the exact expected path of a plane must be declared long before the plane takes off. Drivers on the road typically don’t make it their job to understand their vehicle and allow themselves to be distracted. The airline space’s regulations simply eliminate many of the conditions that lead to the types of accidents you see between automobile drivers.
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