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0 pointsgpderetta2y ago0 comments

Interestingly a quick search can't find any hit for people dying by choking on a airplane bar. A few hits for turbulence though.

0 pointsgpderetta2y ago0 comments

Interestingly a quick search can't find any hit for people dying by choking on a airplane bar. A few hits for turbulence though.

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portaouflop2y ago· 4 in thread

About 6000 people choke to death in the US every year. A couple hundred died during turbulences in the last 20 years.

Data on olives/airline bars is inconclusive

The frequency of "eating stuff" should be a multiple of "being on a plane" I would assume

statistic is hard :(

Yes, but 6000 people don't choke eating olives at an airplane bar.

Learn the Heimlich and self-Heimlich.

dataengineer562y ago· 1 in thread

Maybe because choking to death is so common that it doesn't warrant news articles?

I guarantee you that if someone chokes to death on a Boeing airplane, it will make the news now.

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