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depending on the size of the company, it could be no more than 1.

i was in a car accident with my ENTIRE team one time. minor, but scary.

to quote ... shit happens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger#Second_generati...

Such an accident prompted changes in the time between large and small planes landing.

I'm a former Google employee, they had a similar policy. There were no more than x employees per team allowed on the same plane, above a certain seniority level, only one per plane.

The irony is that there's no such policy for buses, which in many ways are less safe than planes. One catastrophic bus crash on the way to Tahoe could conceivably wipe out most of search quality, or any other department.

Traveling by bus is surprisingly safe – measures in journeys and travel hours even safer than air travel:

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/risks_of_travel.htm

Unless you take the notorious chinatown bus[0].

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_bus_lines#Safety

how many bus accidents in the US in the last 20 years did you hear of where every single person died?