0.01 Deaths per 100 million passenger miles in airplanes. Some airline industry executives assert that passengers are now more likely to die in an airport than on an airliner. 0.05 Deaths per 100 million passenger miles on buses and trains. 0.72 Deaths per 100 million passenger miles in cars. 1 in 1.2 million Airplane flights that involve some kind of accident. The mishaps are not always fatal. 1 in 3.7 million Chance that you will be killed by a shark. 1 in 11 million Chance that you will be killed in an airplane crash. 1 in 5,000 Odds that you will be killed in a car crash. Youre much more likely to die getting to the airport than you are flying in the plane, said the editors at Discovery. 95.7 Percentage of people who survive plane crashes. In many recent major accidents — including the 2009 Miracle on the Hudson, when Capt. Chesley B. Sully Sullenberger ditched an Airbus A320 in the Hudson River — everyone on board has made it out alive. From: theweek/article/index/246552/the-odds-are-11-million-to-1-that-youll-die-in-a-plane-crash
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