So, first I hope this question fits this sub. I’ve often heard that sentance. But how has it been determined?
Like, is it just about the raw number of deaths? In which case, the argument doesn’t exactly land well since we’re in planes a very small part of our lives.
Or has it been calculated that on average, a second spent on a plane is safer than a second spent in a car? In which case it would truly be safer.
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It’s average deaths is the lowest of essentially any form of transport, your viewing the statistics slightly wrong.
You might only fly a few times in your life. However, millions of people fly each day. Across an average year, a couple hundred people die as the result of accidents involving planes, globally. In 2021 the number of airline fatalities was 176.
7300 pedestrians are struck and killed in the US every year. That’s people not even driving dying to cars. 43000 die per year in car accidents.
If you take those, and then look at the number of cars and the number of flights, we get that 0.05 people died per million fliers in 2021. That’s 1 in 20 million yearly. It’s 128 people per million people yearly for cars in the US alone. That’s about 1 in 8000 people yearly.
Flights are exceedingly safe in comparison.
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