Eli5: How is it that there are so few passenger plane crashes?

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They are so big and it seems like so much could go wrong yet they are statistically extremely successful.

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Just to give you some numbers.. it’s an order of magnitude more difficult to get your private pilot’s licence vs your drivers licence. For instance it takes a few hundred bucks to get your DL, but about $16,000 to get the PPL.

And it’s an order of magnitude more difficult to get your commercial pilots licence vs your private pilot’s licence. For instance it takes about 50 hours of flying to get the PPL, but about 1500 hours to be a commercial airline pilot.

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