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Interesting. I took ~1,000 flights in my life (more than half of which in just 6 years, when I used to work at AWS as a tech evangelist). This means that my ch
by simonebrunozzi 6y ago
Interesting. I took ~1,000 flights in my life (more than half of which in just 6 years, when I used to work at AWS as a tech evangelist).
This means that my chance of dying in a flight crash were ~1/10,000th, or 0.01%.
Not high, but not insignificant.
- pcurve 6y agoYour comment reminded me of the post here: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travelbuzz/1108116-what-chances-dying-plane-crash-your-lifetime-flying.html https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travelbuzz/1108116-what-chan... "A one in 10,000 chance of dying in a plane crash in your lifetime is a not trivial probability. I used to work for a consulting company with over 10,000 employees, many of whom traveled constantly for years on end, and, sure enough, when the AA plane to the Dominican Republic crashed in Queens, NY, one of the company's employees was on board. It was bound to happen sooner or later." :-(