Some safety questions I’d like answered
Sunday, March 25th, 2007One nice thing about a blog is that I don’t have to do all the research myself. If we publish a news article, we do at least need to make reasonable efforts to check that what is being said is correct.
So, these are some questions I’ve never got round to answering, but I’d love to see some comments:
- How many years are spent listening to in flight safety announcements - and how many lives have actually been saved due to people taking note of what is being said?
- How many lifetimes have been spent manufacturing life jackets for usage onboard aircraft? How many times has an aircraft landed on water, with fuselage intact (i.e. there are survivors), and how many lives have actually been saved by these jackets?
- How much fuel is burnt each year carrying all of these life jackets over deserts and mountain ranges?
- Have the new security measures introduced last year really prevented any further terrorist atrocities? And how many years do we Brits now spend queueing at airports, because lazy airport managers can use terrorism as an excuse for not bothering to recruit enough staff?
- How many fatalities are there on the roads each year, due to accidents involving people who are fearful or either flying, or taking the train?
- How many people will die from obesity related illnesses, because their parents ferried them 500yards to school, because they were concernd about a bogeyman hiding in the bushes?
- How many villagers are there who have hurtled in their 4×4’s through country lanes, just so they can’t be late to that public meeting about their local airport expansion, where they will hear endless tirades about planes falling out of the sky, and spraying their washing with unburnt kerosine?