@TheMartianLife well, but the risk of getting hit while in the air is similar to getting hit while on the ground
so… not that high
only they move a relatively large thing that maybe COULD be agile enough to evade
IDK… this probably would be the last thing I'd worry about if flying?
@drazraeltod I’d not worry about it, no. The odds of an incident are so minor.
That said, I would imagine their odds of being hit are slightly higher than the ground. To get hit on the ground, something has to have de-orbited over land, made it to the ground, and hit specifically you. To get hit in the sky you could be over the ocean (where we deorbit things), hit anywhere on the aircraft (which has a large footprint), and up high (where more pieces could be intact).
Also a passenger airline will absolutely not be logistically able to manoeuvre so fast, even if the frame where capable and they had warning. These memos are less a warning to do something about and more an “if you suddenly explode or depressurise, this was why”.
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