In article , Greg O says...

The comparison between flying in commercial aircraft and using PVC for
airlines is a bit foolish! Many people fly many miles a day because they
have too, there is no other choice to do the job in a timely maner. On the
other hand there are many options for air lines that are fairly inexpensive,
safe and accepted.

The interesting part is, you invariably see the numbers
quoted as "per passenger-mile." If one changes that into,
"per hour of exposure" then commercial air travel starts
to look a lot worse, approximately the same as, or slightly
worse than, private auto driving. But they (the airline
industry) never quote it that way.

I would be willing to bet if there was a way to make a resonable comparison
between the safety of commercial flight and PVC air line, commercial flight
would be many times safer!
(number of feet of air line multiplied by man hours in the shop vs. flying
hours per person?) LOL!!

I posted the question here recently, if anyone here had experienced
a catastrophic failure of pvc air lines, ever. Several responded
in the affirmative, and that's enough for me. Besides, all my
air lines are soldered copper anyway.

Jim

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