• groet@feddit.org
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    11 hours ago

    Every time you enter a car there is a higher chance of “will I die during this trip” than when you enter a plane.

    Yes the “chance to survive a plane crash” is lower than the “chance to survive a car crash” but the chance to ever be in a plane crash is incredibly low, even when you factor in the number of cars vs number of planes etc.

    • fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 hours ago

      Yeah you get it, exactly. The way they used to describe airplane safety back in the 90s seemed based on “chance to be in a plane crash,” and while those numbers were pretty reassuring, the numbers for “chance to survive a plane crash” were not.