I've been in a near miss in a plane: the pilot in the other plane was clearly inexperienced, not following radio protocol, and we got within O(200m) of a head-on collision which certainly would have been fatal for everyone.
Thing is, the sky is big. You can have non-fatal near-misses that everyone learns from. In trains they literately railroad you into a head-on collision when things go wrong.
I believe that aviation is safe because of standardization, but there's also just a lot more space to almost mess up.
Thing is, the sky is big. You can have non-fatal near-misses that everyone learns from. In trains they literately railroad you into a head-on collision when things go wrong.
I believe that aviation is safe because of standardization, but there's also just a lot more space to almost mess up.