there are a significant chance of surviving a car accident, but almost none at all of a plane one. I think this demonstrates the overarching point well because

there are a significant chance of surviving a car accident, but almost none at all of a plane one. I think this demonstrates the overarching point well because the chances of surviving an air related accident are surprisingly high. The NTSB figures for people involved in commercial airline accidents between 1983-2000 show that 95.7% of people survived: http://boingboing.net/2012/11/05/surviving-a-plane-crash-is-sur.html http://boingboing.net/2012/11/05/surviving-a-plane-crash-is-... .. even narrowed down to only the "worst accidents", the overall rate was 76.6%.