Richard McCracken
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Including the A380.
Yeah, so that sticks standard deviations from the mean, which is 99.9% of the time.
If that's applied one in every million, that means, how many did you say, 6 billion?
How many people are flying a year?
Yeah, so that's โ it's not even one in a million.
So, yeah, go on.
It's good then.
It's good.
It's beyond what GE's General Electric, which is one of the big engine makers, it's beyond their so-called six-sigma test.
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beyond him being better.
Or lack of communication.
Well, that's the gravity of the event occurring.
Let me just put that in a bit of a different context.
The probability of the event occurring is equal to the gravity of the event occurring.
You're not saying that.
So in other words, the risk comparison is, if you want to be relaxed about these things, just look at the risk comparison of flying relative to walking into a hospital.
Wow.
What's happened now is I'm more scared of going to hospital, but I'm still scared of getting on an airplane.
So if we go back to 380, the A380, which is the QF32 flight, and you're taking off and one of the engines blows up,