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		basisword on July 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Malaysia B772 has crashed near Donetsk That popped into my head as soon as I saw this story as I was reading about TWA 800 recently. Strange coincidence considering how rare an event this is.

yuvadam on July 17, 2014 | [–]

Same here. Just this morning I recalled TWA 800, the date always pops up from the calendar, I can't forget it.

mikeash on July 17, 2014 | [–]

The birthday paradox tells us that we'd expect to see coincidences like this after less than 30 crashes.

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