Saturday, July 6, 2013

Innumeracy at San Francisco

The TV news has been going berserk about the 777 crash in San Francisco today.  They had the San Francisco lady fire chief up in front of the TV.  The question we all want answered, How many people made it off the plane alive?  She didn't answer that question, and none of the newsies were smart enough to ask it. She did say that the airline reported 307 souls on board.  She allowed as how 48 survivors were hospitalized and 192 turned up at the airport.  That's only 240 people.  What happened to the other 67?  Did they fail to get off and burn to death when the plane caught fire? Did they wander off the airport in the confusion and take taxis to where ever they were going?  Are they still wandering around in the tall grass off Runway 28L?  Are they stuck in customs?
   I expected a fire chief to know how to count.  This one clearly didn't.  Probably never did learn the new math. 
   Also kinda disgusting, all the officials called it "an incident".  Here they have a burned out airliner still smoking on the runway, debris all over the runway, and they can't come right out and say "accident"?  What's wrong with this picture?
 

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