Re: Airlines Being The Safest Form Of Transportation
In the USA (stats are easily available and Tibeten goat farmers probably don't drive much or take many flights so...)
The TSA say there are 2.9Million airline passengers/day, say 1Bn / year
The Dept Transport say they take 1.1Billion trips/day or 411 Bn trips/year - and average 14,500 mi/year
So 400x as many driving trips as flying trips.
There are about 45,000 road deaths/year, there hasn't been an airliner fatality for 4 years, and that was the person that got in-flight disembarked when that South West's engine blew up.
If you only include 'proper' airlines and not helicopter sight seeing trips and 3 drunk fishermen on a float plane, there hasn't been a crash for more then a decade - and that was a Dash-8 (serves you right for flying a plane with propellers) there hasn't been a large US passenger jet crash for 20years.