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Originally Posted by drofgnal
You deal with likelihood and not properly the consequence. The ultimate consequence could be disruption of navigation and comm to the point of midair collision, missing the runway, or worse. Although a few bad accidents have had many survivors, most end in everyone dead.
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Your comment is valid, and it is something I considered . . . it's hard to cover all the bases when trying to keep comment length down! A proper cost/benefit analysis must, of course, consider both the likelihood of harm and the probable consequences. Such concepts are often contemplated in the law, such as in the "
Hand formula" concept that underlies much of tort law.
A plane crash is bad. Conduct that might crash a plane one time in ten thousand would be far too dangerous. But if the conduct was estimated to cause a plane crash once every thousand years based on current daily flight traffic, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Others might be more concerned, and that's okay. It's worth discussing.