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ok so. am i the only one who thinks it's weird that when some airliner goes down or has something very bad happen to it, we talk about ExampleAirâ„¢ Flight 101, which is the name for a scheduled flight that happens every week or so? like, it's not a particularly unique name, right?
if they came up with a better numbering scheme for disasters then they wouldn't have to retire the flight number when a plane on a particular route crashes
@hikari I think that even if they had a better numbering scheme, they'd still have to retire the flight numbers, and people would still use them the same way
combination of superstition (not wanting to be on a flight with the same number as one that crashed) and the media wanting to report on it with the most easily understood number (and they also wouldn't have a "disaster number" or whatever for the initial reporting, so all the momentum would still be on the flight number)