PPM Version:
Air travel has never been safer. As of today, your odds of dying in a plane crash are down to one in 45 million. There were only 23 crashes worldwide last year, and only 475 deaths. No commercial flight has had a fatal crash in the U.S. in four years, and none of the major carriers has had a major crash since 2001. Meanwhile, your odds of dying in a car accident are one in 6,500.
Full Story:
I'm about to tell you some stats. Your logical brain is going to hear them. And it's STILL not going to cure a single person's fear of flying.
--Air travel has never been safer.
--As of today, your odds of dying in a plane crash are down to one in 45 million. There were 23 plane crashes in the world in 2012 and 475 deaths . . . those are the lowest numbers since 1945 when there were a hell of a lot fewer planes.
--No commercial flight has had a fatal crash in the U.S. in four years. That's more than 40 million commercial flights. And among the major carriers, there hasn't been a fatal crash since 260 people died in an American Airlines crash in November 2001.
--Based on these numbers, you could fly every single day for 123,000 YEARS before the odds caught up with you.
--Meanwhile, your odds of dying in a car accident in any given year are about one in 6,500. And over the course of your lifetime, your odds of dying in a car accident are about one in 83.