Some old but still relevant stats: https://flightsafety.org/fsd/fsd_oct01.pdf https://flightsafety.org/fsd/fsd_oct01.pdf "From 1983 through 2000, NTSB investig

Some old but still relevant stats: https://flightsafety.org/fsd/fsd_oct01.pdf https://flightsafety.org/fsd/fsd_oct01.pdf "From 1983 through 2000, NTSB investigated 26 accidents involving fire, serious injury and either substantial aircraft damage or aircraft destruction. There were 2,739 occupants involved in these serious accidents; 1,524 (55.6 percent) of the occupants survived the accident, 716 (26.1 percent) of the occupants died from impact, 340 (12.4 percent) died from unknown causes, 12 131 (4.8 percent) died from fire/smoke, and 28 (1.0 percent) died from other causes."