Small planes are about twice as safe per mile as motorcycles, all-cause to all-cause. Now, there’s planes running out of fuel and drunk driving on cycles that

Small planes are about twice as safe per mile as motorcycles, all-cause to all-cause. Now, there’s planes running out of fuel and drunk driving on cycles that some operators might choose to exclude from their own risk calculations, but it’s a little over one order of magnitude riskier than cars. Whether that’s unbelievably dangerous is up to personal judgment.