I’m shocked by this, because I was taught via science the answer was bicycling, but no, I guess the YouTube I watched was a lie.
Popular Science says, flying is actually the safest way to travel, statically speaking. The thing is, plane crashes make the news in part because they are so rare. An average of 3,287 people across the world die in car crashes every day. In addition to the 1.3 million people who die in road crashes each year, the Association for Safe International Road Travel estimates that 20 to 50 million more are injured or disabled. Compare that to commercial air travel: some Dutch aviation consultants (To70) estimate that commercial passenger jets see just one fatal accident for every 16 million flights. According to a different study, for every 1 billion passenger miles traveled by car, 7.2 people die; by plane, it’s 0.07 people.
In 2017, there were zero deaths related to commercial passenger jet accidents around the world. The Southwest incident in April marked the first accident-related death on a U.S. passenger airline since 2009.
Just remember to bring the Xanax.
