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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The last fatal incident involving a commercial airline that occurred in the United States was in 2018 when a fan blade came apart on Southwest Flight 1380 and shrapnel penetrated the cabin, killing 1 person. This incident ended an almost decade long streak of no fatalities on US airlines with the short landing of Asian Airlines flight 214 in 2013 resulting in 3 fatalities. So in the last 11 years there’s only been 4 fatalities on commercial flights in the United States across billions of passengers annually.
In contrast, there’s approximately 35,000 fatal car crashes in the US every year, so in the same time span as it took to accumulate 4 fatalities in aviation there’s been almost 100,000 times more fatal automotive accidents.
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