I’m sure it was because the windshield was littered with too much HUD.
Good riddance
Sad comment.
Sad bootlicking
Karma.
I’m not saying he was a good guy, but he ain’t a war criminal and was maybe really nice for all we know so I don’t really understand how you can be happy about such news.
Clearly not a monster, but he does not sound that nice to me in this whole thing. I guess we’ll never know for sure.
I did a search for his name alongside the sexual harassment accusations, and I don’t see his name listed anywhere. It’s suspicious that so many around him are accused, but I don’t see Claude named anywhere.
He and his brothers still maintain control of Ubisoft (even through an attempted hostile takeover). It’s been shown in documents that management have known about but ignored the pervasive sexual misconduct there (in fact promoting the abusers) as well as extensive union busting, employee abuse, on top of the numerous lawsuits for selling/mismanaging customer data, rug pulls with games, and more. Claude Guillemot was an active founding member of the company and maintained his involvement throughout.
Those alone I believe earn the ire thrown at them. I personally add the moral failings of their early overenthusiastic adoption of NFTs and AI.
They very much are a part of the abusive wealthy class treating the world as their personal misogynistic playground.
To argue he was “maybe really nice” is to straight up ignore his hand in all of that. Try again.
That warrants the dead penalty then. Justice is served!
seems like his rich excess killed himself, i don’t see some activist attacking him
rich people dying from flying most of us can’t afford to do seems like a personal problem
What you’re saying is probably true, but I don’t think he deserved to die burned in a crash for such things.
Does anyone deserve to die, for any reason or by any method?
Yes, absolutely.
I don’t know enough about this guy, specifically, to say he directly deserved it. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to feel sad about it, because I know enough to know that he chose to be a part of the systematic dismantling of workers rights within capitalism (among lots of other bad shit that he had voluntarily made himself a part of).
Fuck anyone who behaves that way.
You said you don’t know how people can be happy about the news. That’s mostly what I was addressing.
Ultimately I agree, he should have been tried for his crimes against society and guillotined along with the rest of aristocracy ages ago.
Why try to qualify this? Your moral compass is calibrated to “not a war criminal”? Is that your line where “evil” and “they’re ok I guess” is?
we know he stole the value of people’s labor.
All these guys do is cheat and steal to get their planes, then they get killed in them. This is not rare.
Still, strangely that wasn’t a Boeing…
The Guillemonts are old money French aristocrats who escaped the Revolution by being out of the country. They are collectively terrible to others and are deliberately trying to tank Ubisoft so they can buy it back and take it private. All those anti consumer business moves Ubisoft males are their best ideas at making money. Hopefully the loss of the savvy one brings them back to reality but history and experience shows they won’t.
source?
Link your Ubisoft account, and for only 3000 Ubisoft Connect Points, you can unlock the new Elite Pro Club plane that never crashes!
Oh no…anyway
Did we have another Luigi or something?
There’s a huge difference between refusing people healthcare and producing video games people are free to buy or not.
Promoting sexual abusers and trying to cover up their abuse through two lawsuits though? Yeah, not a good look
That means he deserved to die?
no but i’m not gonna care about people celebrating it
imagine wasting effort defending shit birds
no
So we agree then.
No need to be so hostile.
that’s not how words work
you just make yourself look silly
Globox Mangione
putin got to him. since one of his other favorite methods is falling out or exploding planes.
This thread, the comments, and the people who post them, would be fascinating subjects for a sociological-psychological study.
You’ll probably want to stay away from the Internet when Trump dies then.
Why is everything an all or nothing deal with you people? What causes this?
you don’t get it mate I don’t like the games ubisoft makes so making fun of someone who burned to death in a freak accident is totally justified
also his ancestors ran from the french revolution over 200 years ago. this is relevant because… uh…
Way to skip over all the documented recent reasons people are posting.
documented recent speculation that we don’t know he was involved with? his brother yves was the ceo at the time of all this drama. Claude was just a stakeholder.
Claude was a director and deputy CEO. He was on the board. He was directly involved in the technical and business management side for years. Calling him just a stakeholder undercuts his own opinion on what he did at Ubisoft as he expressed in a few interviews himself throughout the years.
Just because you didn’t know who he was doesn’t mean the rest of us didn’t. Yes Yves was the face and CEO, and thus the person directly named in the lawsuit because that’s how it works, but Claude was often cited as the quiet force behind Yves anchoring him, serving as operations officer, advisor, and other titles over time.
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Wait, why do you hate lemmy for this? I think who you actually hate are humans. Reddit and all the other modern social media platforms have the same issues, because they too have humans.
I wouldn’t be surprised if many of these people are, in fact, banned on reddit because of this behavior.
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Both of those places are on reddit and are heavily censored.
Why are you still posting?
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if you can burry your head in the sand enough to be upset about people celebrating the death of rich fuck wads in 2026 just put said head back in the ground
Lemmy seems waaaay more negative in general though. It’s actually kinda jarring being here sometimes.
Because most of us got banned on Reddit for speaking out.
I guess I have to tolerate limpdicked equivocation and “let’s all be sad some rich asshole carked it” on reddit but why here? Those spineless losers can fuck off back to reddit.
Definitely not just talking about subjects like this.
Meh, I don’t wish death on anyone, but that doesn’t mean I have to be sad that a shitty person died.
Meh, I don’t wish death on anyone
10 years ago (maybe even 5), I would have agreed with you.
I’m past that shit. There are people that I now 100% wish would do humanity a favor and kill themselves.
Nobody’s criticizing people for not being sad. There’s a word for this, “gloating”.
That’s not true.
I don’t see anyone criticizing people for not being sad. There’s a difference between that and criticizing people for being jubilant (not just not sad) about death.
I still think that’s fine. Sometimes the world is better off when someone dies.
Yep. Someone like trump. Not someone who made games worse.
Part of the 0.01%, made absurd amounts of money making games worse, heading a company actively fighting against unionisation.
Like Hitler.
That pretty much nails my feelings. Charlie Kirk is a huge piece of shit and I’m glad he died honestly. But I’d be a worse person if I made a personality out of mocking him for being dead. Can’t we just take the win? Fate decided a bad person was over. I wish that could be that.
good things should be celebrated
things that improve the general state of humanity are generally considered good
Who here is making this into their personality? It’s the pearl clutchers here who are making this far bigger than it is.
People are still posting gleeful shit about his death. I don’t care what anyone says, that’s unhealthy.
Before 2016 (and to an even greater degree, 2025), I would never have wished death on another person. However, the last ten years have been very eye opening for me. There are people whose continued existence on this mortal plane is the direct cause of untold hatred, suffering, and death (all unnecessary).
Humanity, and quite literally the planet itself, would be much better off with them dead. And, in fact, their continued existence is a direct threat to all life on this planet.
Whether or not it’s healthy is a separate question. I can’t say I’m super happy about it. But it is what it is.
Yes, there are degrees and this Ubisoft guy isn’t on the same level as, say, Trump or Stephen Miller. But they are both cancers on humanity, maybe just different “stages.”
Charlie Kirk was okay with people dying from gun violence if it meant fewer restrictions on guns. He fought against minority groups’ rights. He was spreading dangerous rhetoric worldwide.
The Ubisoft guy helped found a popular video game company and was probably just a generic rich prick at worst.
The world is better off without Charlie Kirk. I doubt the world, let alone the video game industry, let alone even just Ubisoft, will get any better after today thanks to Guillemot’s death.
There’s a huge difference here.
The point is was making had nothing to do with Charlie Kirk other than he was an example of people being gleeful about a death. Which is unhealthy.
Is it unhealthy to be gleeful for the death of someone who promotes and spreads violent and hateful rhetoric and got hoist by his own petard? This is different than being gleeful about the death of someone who is making a hobby worse in one specific company.
You don’t need to ask this. You know what I’m saying. I’m not going to participate in you trying to excuse what you’re doing.
I mean, yeah, Kirk was unquestionably the bigger turd but I’m happy both are gone. They’re all part of the same overarching issue with this world.
Them just fixing their shit would be greatly preferable. But they wouldn’t be part of the problem for very long if they were capable of that kind of introspection.
Stop hating Lemmy. For me, it’s my way of communicating that I’m a Misanthropic Anti-Natalist. I can do my part to sway the public opinion that humans should all go extinct. I can spread the idea of humans being the monsters, the true enemies of the planet and all it’s life. I can see it slowly taking hold of the world, people coming to terms with our monstrous nature. Someday in the far future, perhaps we all choose to self-terminate. We are not divine nor special, just meat.
Is this satire?
What the fuck are you talking about?
At this point I can’t tell who’s shitposting and who isn’t lol
It’s wrong to wish people dead
I had this attitude 20 years ago. I no longer do. I’ve come to realize that there are certain rich fucks who are actively harming humanity directly (Hitler, Kissinger, Reagan, world leaders who send the poor to useless wars), and if they died and their death prevented more suffering, that’s a good thing for humanity. Even the rich fucks that just hoard money are actively robbing from the poor to do so, and some of those people die as a result.
How many people does a person have to kill before they are too far gone to save, and are just evil? How many levels of indirection does it take before they wouldn’t be considered evil? What happens if a person indirectly kills millions of people? Is that still far enough to call them evil?
These are the questions you should ask yourself when you try to plot out your own moral compass.
certain rich fucks who are actively harming humanity directly (Hitler, Kissinger, Reagan, world leaders who send the poor to useless wars
Ok, so which of those examples was this guy most like? Lol
Keep reading the comment you dolt
The wealth hoarders immediately after that part you quoted.
“actively robbing the poor” and “actively killing masses of poor people” are two different levels of evil.
Are they, really?
Poor folks go through a lot as a result of being poor. It’s hard to express how miserable the constant stress is, and it’s not hard to understand how constant stress and the things we do to try and cope with it directly shorten lives.
Yeah, merely inflicting suffering on innocent people isn’t quite as bad as killing them outright but it’s such a small difference that I don’t see a lot to be gained from trying to differentiate them.
this isn’t complicated
the social contract basically boils down to, you at a baseline do right by me and in return I do the same for you
assholes like this and other rich fucks try to game this system for profit by literally harming parts of our lives via loopholes
when ass fucks say lets hurt person ‘insert something that has no impact on anything’ like skin color or sexuality that is wrong
when people talk about wishing death on people that are literally fucking with our lives it should obviously not be the same
whether tanking a video game falls into that bucket is nuanced but people like the united health fuck are easily fair game
The Guillemont brothers were/are not nice people, maybe that’s triggering those horrible comments like “Ah ok, anyways…”
yea i’m always amazed at the amount of dick riding random people with 2dollars to their name will do for rich people that literally wouldn’t spit on them to put them out if they were on fire
but none of this new and the studies already exist
i much prefer the colloquial ‘temporary embarrassed millionaires’
I think scientists started that study but most of the team committed suicide. A study to find out why they killed themselves is not yet underway.
Yeah, yeah, and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.
Fuck off.
The hoops these folks jump through to justify cheering the death of someone is terrifying.
Why do I need to justify being happy a rotten person ain’t fucking up the world anymore? Can’t I just be happy that the wicked witch is dead?
How do those boots taste?
Fuck billionaires and fuck nobility. Trying to tone police everyone else doesn’t hide the harm that they’ve done to society. Would you do the same if Putin was assassinated tomorrow and lead to the end of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
One is a military invasion of a sovereign nation and war crimes committed against civilians bordering on genocide.
The other is making games with bad monetization and bad business practices.
The fact that you would equate the two shows that you don’t possess the moral integrity, rationality, or intelligence of a well-adjusted adult. Have a horrible day.
They’re part of the same class.
Please don’t downplay the harmful pracrices those leaders/executives have on teens and children. They are actively exploting them for money. Just because the harm isn’t immediately visible, doesn’t mean it won’t have lasting effects.
The other is making games with bad monetization and bad business practices.
You’re horribly underplaying what the Guillermot family has done as the heads of Ubisoft. There’s plenty of articles that have come out about how they’re actively (and illegally) suppressing unionization in Ubisoft. They’re also actively lobbying to prevent regulation in the US and Europe.
But of course you didn’t include that because it doesn’t support your argument. Just shut up you intellectually and morally bankrupt bootlicker
It’s monstrous, it shows who the piece of shit in the story is and it wasn’t the victim.
Keep licking those boots
As Richard Stallman once said: “I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone”.
Can’t argue that. He may not be missed after what he did, but a life is a life.
Oh, COME ON, people! Are we seriously going to get morally conflicted over someone who did shitty things? I’m sorry he’s not Donald Trump (then again, lets be honest, you would be one of those people shedding tears over him despite what he’s done to collectively fuck over everyone and everything.)
A shitty person was taken off the face of the earth, that’s a freaking win. If you’re this morally conflicted, then you’re the reason why these kinds of shitty people get away with what they get away with.
I’d have agreed with you if he was the direct cause of some people death, like that asshole that got Luigi-ed, but he is not. He sure took decisions that ended up making subpart games, fucked over devs, and all.
He’s a capitalist shark like there are thousands of others, bit does that warrant death?
People like you are the cause why fascism is on the rise. No humanity, no regrets, no actions taken, until it affects you personally.
It doesn’t warrant death, no. But people can cheer the death of an awful person without saying “hey we should keep the streak going!”
And what are you talking about? Our current case of fascism is a direct result of unregulated capitalism, courtesy of neoliberalism.
And what are you talking about? Our current case of fascism is a direct result of unregulated capitalism, courtesy of neoliberalism.
Not gonna argue on that because it is true. Still, fascism wouldn’t strive as it does without those who only logic is “I don’t like them so he deserves to die”. That’s the logic behind german innaction when jews were getting oppressed, and I prefer fight that now than wait for it to be the majority logic.
Still, fascism wouldn’t strive as it does without those who only logic is “I don’t like them so he deserves to die”.
This is a straw man, I don’t see anyone here making this actual argument.
Agreed…
It’s crazy it’s so controversial. Don’t dance on peoples graves.
if he was the direct cause of some people death, like that asshole that got Luigi-ed, but he is not.
Just an FYI, this is literally how every single one of them justifies their evil to themselves.
Few billionaires are direct causes of anyone dying. However, they’re always indirect causes of lots of people dying, by their own choice.
Is there a meaningful difference between shooting somebody and poisoning the food and water of 10 random people? Maybe. Maybe not. Ultimately, you’re choosing to take people’s lives, knowing the outcome.
I don’t think people care about whether you’re a ‘direct’ cause, as much as they care about whether or not you’re a deliberate cause.
All of us will probably cause some deaths as we go about our lives. But at no point do most of us make a decision to end someone’s life. Whereas billionaires do make the decisions, and they do it completely voluntarily, seeking profit. They often seem happy about the decisions too.
And in the current case, did he cause any direct or indirect death? Did he chose to cause someone death?
Depends. What do you think about a suicide as a response from being laid off?
Hard to say. Suicides rarely have a single cause. A layoff can be a trigger, but you rarely kill yourself from that alone if you life a pretty decent life outside of work.
Usually I go with “you are responsible of your own actions and words, not what other do or says about it”. So unless he personally pushed someone to suicide, or ordered someone to be bullied to the point of suicide, no, I don’t think he’d be responsible.
The concept of “kill line” is incompatible with such a view point.
Care to explain? That’s not something I heard about.
what the fuck kinda apologist bullshit is blaming fascism on people angry about capitalism excess and not the actual fascist
the fucking mental gymnastics
Being angry at capitalist excess is a good thing. Saying that someone dying horribly is ok because you disagreed with how it ran is business isn’t.
Fascist rely on that communitarian instinct to trives. Nazism rise came partly from clever propaganda gymnastic. To the rich, they said the problem was bolcheviks who spread unrest into the masses. To the poors, they said it was the rich jews who fattened on their labor.
To both they found a scapegoat remote enough to avoid having them interact enough to realize fascism bullshit, and that’s how they won.Fascism always tries to dehumanise part of society to make them the scapegoat for real issues, and gain momentum. Refusing those easy narrative is the first and more important step to refuse fascism.
i didn’t kill him
i didn’t wish him dead
his own excess killed him (the number of rich people dying to flight related stuff is crazy disproportionate)
don’t white wash the harm this man has done
expecting people to be respectful about his death is pathetic
blaming fascism on not the fascist themselves is worse
and censoring comments is just sad
I was talking about OC and why I censored his comment after it got reported multiple times. My bad for not having been more explicit.
you’ve ‘moderated’ multiple comments in this thread
i have no idea why you feel the need to defend rich trash
this wasn’t a good man
you’ve ‘moderated’ multiple comments in this thread
Both broke the community rules, and many more probably does, but we (the mod team, I’m not the only one out there) only removed the worst of them
i have no idea why you feel the need to defend rich trash
this wasn’t a good man
I defend my humanity, which includes having the minimal decency of not dancing on somone else grave. Even the worst asshole on earth deserves decency in death. That’s includes you.
there is a subset of humanity that worships wealth and they are about as intelligent as you would expect them to be
arguing with them is about as useful as doing so with maga
You’d be surprised how some of those irredeemable people can, in fact be reasoned with, and even can change their views.
I remember the story of a black man befriending a bunch of klansmen and making them leave the organization.
lol just dedicate your life to it, no big deal!
Which is way more respectable than laughing about it behing internet anonymity.
sure, same I feel about a genuine priest dedicated to serving people, i have the utmost respect for them
but you expecting people to give up their lives to rehabilitate shit birds is pretty lmao
and unless you yourself are doing so, it’s also hypocritical
and i assure you i tell these people to their face in real life, many seem so confused
expecting anyone to dox themselves to full internet to prove a point is crazy naive and even more lmao
but you expecting people to give up their lives to rehabilitate shit birds is pretty lmao
If it works, it is worth it.
and unless you yourself are doing so, it’s also hypocritical
I volunteers for other causes (helping elders, sometimes migrants, to learn to use computers, as well as occasionally helping my dad who volunteers at the red cross). Everyone got a way they can help others, but I doubt a klansman would listen to someone like me, despite being a white male.
expecting anyone to dox themselves to full internet to prove a point is crazy naive and even more lmao
I never expected that. I just said that laughing at someone contribution to society is at best petty.
i volunteer as well but it takes a special type to put up with people like this, i know because i live in a state around them
unless you are literally dealing with this directly i don’t really care to hear some hollier than though bullshit
dealing with racist, sexist, bigoted fucks daily is exhausting
imagine defending their behavior even indirectly
Nice.
(No hate here, just the nice meme for age 69. My condolences to his family.)
I heard he was flying around looking for collectibles.
Why do so many “important” people die in plane crashes in the past couple of decades?
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Andy Cecere (2026 - US Bank)
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Joshua Base (2026 - Capital Factory)
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Christophe de Margerie (2014 - Total energies)
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Petr Kelner (2021 - PPF Group)
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Kobe Bryant (2020)
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Glen de Vries (2021 - Medidata Solutions)
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Gary Knopp ( 2020 - politician)
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Steve Appleton (2012 - Micron CEO)
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Cheryl heinze ( 2012 - politician)
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Alison Des Forges ( 2009 - human right investigator)
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Beverly Eckert (2009 - activist on 9/11 committee)
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wilhemson executives in 2012
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Now the CEO of Ubisoft in 2026
That is just in the US, so many other rich businessmen have also died in plane crashes in other countries. Romania, Italy, Brazil, Russia, etc… Are aircraft crashes just way more common than the companies want us to believe? I was always told that airplanes were statistically safer than cars.
Also why are plane crashes so often surrounded in suspicious circumstances like the IBM plane crash where a ton of executives were killed and immediately following the other IBM execs pivoted the company focus (which kind of led to their downfall in the consumer market).
Commercial aviation is much safer than cars because there are strict procedures and oversight that applies to everyone involved - not only pilots, but the entire operational chain. It isn’t exactly the same when it comes to small business jets.
Some are helicopter crashes
Small aircraft got the nicknames “widow makers” and “doctor killers” for a reason.
Also also. You have a 17 year span of time for 13 people that died in a plane crash. That’s less than one person a year on average. I’d say that’s pretty freaking safe compared to other modes of travel like automobiles or through The Warp.
wasnt kobe a helicopter accident. and people glossed over the fact that he allegations of SA in the past when he died, the news sure sweeps SA under the rug pretty quick.
Because those important people are more likely to be in a plane than unimportant people.
You never learn the name of the “unimportant” people that die in air crashes
Now that I had ent considered. There’s importance squared. A second layer.
I’m tired of humans. I’m now identify as one of those gay frogs Alex Jones is so strangely passionate about.
We might not learn their names, but we definitely learn about the aircraft and how many people died.
If its of a certain size yes, but the planes that actually crash everyday don’t get reported widely because they’re tiny aircraft
Commercial planes are constantly coming and going through every major airport. Do these wealthy people really collectively fly more than that?
How often does Bezos end up in a plane? How often are you in a plane?
That’s the wrong question to ask. “important people are more likely to be in a plane than unimportant people” is valid as a partial explanation only if we assume that all aircrafts have similar crash probabilities and are flown with a similar number of passengers.
The frequency with which I personally fly does not impact how often other people fly. All it does is give you one data point on how often other people in my situation might fly, and we don’t know how many others are in my situation, so that information is also useless.
Let us assume 2 people fly in planes. One of them does so 10 times a month. The other 10 times a year. The risks are higher for the 10 times a month flyer.
In a world where there are exactly two people who ever fly, that would make sense. Now what if there are 12 people who fly 10 times a year a 1 person who flies 10 times a month? Will it be more likely that someone in the group of 12 dies in a plane crash, or the one person who flies 10 times a month?
I see what you’re saying but it’s splitting hairs. The rich guy uses an airplane more often that others do so he’s more likely to die in a plan crash simply because he’s more likely to be a plane the first place.
Rich fucks just fly more overall. While flying is very safe. If you do it more, then it is more likely you will be the one in the plane when the rare thing goes wrong. Quirks of privilege.
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I can’t imagine people that got rich by exploiting people and cutting corners have the strictest maintenance regime, either.
Guess those rich people are just going to have to start buying commercial jets. What a nightmare!
Riding with the peasantry class? Never!
Yeah, key detail being, if we started listing car crashes from the past month, it would take up the whole thread.
Also very different airplanes
Commercial airplane crashes always make big news and their crashes in the past always caused improved regulations to the point where there is little left to improve
Private airplanes, on the other hand, different story
God, I hate these arguments.
“Look at all these things that happened! There must be something more to this! It’s too much of a coincidence! CONSPIRACY!”
Did you know shark attacks increase alongside ice cream sales? By that logic, there must be some secret alliance between Big Ice Cream and the shark cabal.
Or maybe both go up because it’s summer and more people are at the beach.
The same thing happens with plane crashes involving wealthy people. Rich people fly far more than the average person, and they often fly private aircraft, which have a higher accident rate than commercial airlines.
Not every cluster of events is evidence of secret black-ops CIA assassinations. Sometimes a correlation is just a correlation, and sometimes a streak of bad luck is just a streak of bad luck.
I own a cat and have never been hit by a meteorite, therefore cats prevent meteor strikes.
See you at the next antivax meeting.
Big Ice Cream and Big Shark are definitely working together!
I was always told that airplanes were statistically safer than cars.
Commercial airliners. It’s a very different story for smaller planes. And helicopters are death traps!
I have the perfect story for this.
About a decade ago I attended a week-long reliability training held by ASQ (the American Society for Quality). One day heading back to my hotel room I shared an elevator with the then-president-chairman of ASQ.
He was chatting about airliner safety, and how the engineers would do things like test/measure/calculate to find the necessary thickness of a part, and then just triple it for safety because they could. He said he’d never hesitate to ride a commercial airliner.
He then said he would never ride in a helicopter as long as he lived, lol.
Honestly the only helicopters I’d trust are VTOLs that lean more toward the plain side of things, mostly because then they can glide and don’t just rush towards the ground.
I was just reading a story about some sky divers who died in a plane crash shortly after launch.
It said the non commercial airliner stuff isn’t held to the same regulatory standards, and these smaller outfits often fudge or push safety things off and whatever state / agency it was said it couldn’t say these types of services offering flights are safe because of it.
It might just be a frequency illusion or something, but it has seemed like airplane crashes in the US have skyrocketed in the past few years (surely it has nothing to do with the Republican party gutting regulation). And looking at where most of the dates in your comment fall, I wonder if it’s just a probability thing.
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