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 second one. The death rates for flying on an airliner is 0.2 deaths for every 10 billion passenger miles (at least according to Wikipedia) and for cars it’s 150 per 10 billion passenger miles. Planes have a lot of redundancies and the training to fly an airliner is much better than learning to drive from your family, who may or may not be terrible drivers.
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