What are the chances of plane crash?
He’s more than 10 times more likely to be killed driving to or from the airport than being killed in an aircraft crash. Aircraft transportation is by far the safest mode of transportation in existence expressed as the number of fatalities per passenger mile traveled. You only hear about aircraft crashes because of the numbers of people who are killed at the same time. You rarely hear about traffic accidents outside of where you live because so few people die in each accident, even though nearly 40,000 people die on US roads every year compared to a few hundred per year in all aviation accidents combined. He’s even more likely to be killed driving to the corner store on a Friday or Saturday evening when the numbers of drunks on the roads peak and drive the odds to 20 times or more likely than while flying somewhere.
