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		caf on March 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Malaysia Airlines Says It Lost Contact With Plane ... I'm sure we would read about a single road accident claiming a few hundred lives as well.

amix on March 8, 2014 [–]

Each day about ~100.000 people lose their life in road accidents...

caf on March 8, 2014 | [–]

That's actually wrong by an order of magnitude, but that's not the point. The fact that individual road accidents claiming a few victims are so common is exactly why it's not news.

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