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My information may very well be out of date! This is one of those lines I've been repeating for 20 years and it might be time to update it.
by dionidium 6y ago
My information may very well be out of date! This is one of those lines I've been repeating for 20 years and it might be time to update it.
- gsnedders 6y agoOn a per journey basis, in Europe/US/Canada, considering _only_ commercial aviation (i.e., excluding general aviation), the fatality/journey rate is comparable to both cars and walking.
- dmurray 6y agoLooking at Wikipedia [0], there a a lot of incidents I never heard about and a disproportionate number are "shortly after takeoff". I didn't count them all, but from eyeballing it a 1000-mile journey is 3x as likely to kill you as a 100-mile one, not 1x or 10x. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...