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0 pointsgingerbread-man9y ago0 comments

For comparison, about 10,000 unrestrained motorists die in fatal vehicular accidents every year, and millions are injured. https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/seatbelts/facts.html

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wallace_f9y ago

So according to this answer[1], ~1.7MM fly/day.

Making a quick guess that from '80-'08, Americans average 1MM flights/day, then odds of serious injury are ~1 in 95,000.

Odds of death are 1 in 9,333,333.

Assuming the possibility of taking 3 'average' flights/day, then you'd need to board flights non-stop for 8,523 years to die, on average. 88 years to be injured.

[1] - https://www.quora.com/How-many-people-fly-domestically-in-th...

gingerbread-manOP9y ago

Of course, general aviation is much more dangerous. As a general rule, the smaller the plane, the riskier it is, partially due to the corresponding increase in regulatory scrutiny as the size of the aircraft grows. Private pilots need a minimum of ~50 hours for their license. Most newly-hired jet pilots, private and commercial, have at least 1500 hours, and many have more than that.

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