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"General aviation is also about 20 times more dangerous than driving a car" Yet the title of your link is "Why Private Planes Are Nearly as Deadly as Cars" and
by VLM 11y ago
"General aviation is also about 20 times more dangerous than driving a car"
Yet the title of your link is "Why Private Planes Are Nearly as Deadly as Cars" and by nearly, the clickbait means:
"Breaking out the data per mile puts the accident rate of private aviation at one-sixth the accident rate in automobiles"
The truth is likely somewhere in between that 1:120 range.
- mcguire 11y ago"[For automobiles] the fatality rate was 1.1 deaths per 100 million vehicle-miles traveled. Assuming an average vehicle speed of 50 miles per hour (a big assumption), the fatality rate for automobiles translates to 1.1 per every 2 million hours. Taking the preliminary 2013 fatality rate in general aviation of 1.05 fatalities for every 100,000 hours of flight time and scaling it up to 2 million hours gives a comparison rate of 21 general aviation fatalities per every 2 million hours." Depends on how you measure.