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It seems like you're conflating two issues here:

1. Old people like to fly small planes and crash them more than others [citation needed?]

2. Small planes emit toxic chemicals that are slowly poisoning everyone

Personally I'm horrified that we allow issue (2.) to continue given all we know now about the dangers of lead poisoning. But I don't particularly care about issue (1.) since I generally think people should be allowed to risk their own lives as they see fit.




> since I generally think people should be allowed to risk their own lives as they see fit.

But what if your life was in danger because of this. Because it is, even if the risk to you and your loved ones is low, it is not zero. If there was good reason for accepting this risk, that would be one thing. But there simply is no other rational reason than thrill for flying a small plane around for a few hours and landing in the same place. Someone's else's right to thrill does not eclipse my right not to be assaulted by harmful sounds, my right not to breathe harmful chemicals, and my right to not to be killed by a crashing plane.


How many bystanders have died, or even injured, in hobby aircraft crashes?


I hear it happens with emergency beach landings especially—consequently they're somewhat of a last resort. Couldn't find a statistic though.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/02/sunbathers-kil...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatalities_from_aviati...




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