Between 1994 and 1998, an average of 169 people per year died in commercial plane crashes. There were 7 deaths per billion miles flown. Let's pretend that an extra 250 people or so died in airplane crashes each of those years -- about the same number of airline passengers who died in the sad 9/11 attacks. That would bring up the number to 17 deaths per billion miles flown.

Between 1994 and 1998, an average of 41,616 people per year died in motor vehicle crashes. There were 17 deaths per billion miles driven.

Given this and all the new safety restrictions the airlines are creating and the air marshals, I don't see a rational argument that flying, even now, is significantly riskier than driving.

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messages antérieurs.
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lethargy.
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people i know, then.
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