Another reason to avoid LA

Your plane might explode.

Officials said the WestJet Boeing 737, carrying 136 passengers, came within 15 metres of colliding with a 150-seat Northwest Airlines Airbus A320 that was taking off.
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The "runway incursion" was the eighth such incident at LAX this year, matching the total for all of 2006.

According to my calculations, the approximate chance you might almost die* from a plane collision in 2007 at LAX¹ is:

1 in 58,157

(or about 0.001719 percent)


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¹656,842 aircraft movements in 2006 at LAX (Source: Airports Council International) = approx. 465,263 aircraft movements by August 15, 2007, presuming no significant change in airport traffic between 2006 and 2007. Divided by eight incidences of near-death = 58,157.
*Presuming 100% death rate upon collision.