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I admit it: When I fly by plane, I get some upset. Entering the metal tube is a place where I rediscovered my prayer more than any other place. I was once afraid to fly, so I forced my father to get on the train with me from New York City to Miami.
If you’re like me, a terrible crash involved in the US Army helicopter, which left 67 dead, including the American airplane on Wednesday night and 60 passengers, shaked you in your core. In fact, a clear improvement should be made to improve airline safety, according to experts interviewed by CNN’s Marnie Hunter and Julia Buckley.
But you and I should never think about the future flight again. Flying on a commercial airline in the United States is one of the safest things you can do and very safe in the past 40 years.
This clearly does nothing from the heartache on Wednesday, but provides a terrible flyer’s sense of security.
I am a statistical man at the end of the day, and the statistically standing out of Wednesday tragedy is the first major crash since 2009.
Between 2010 and 2024, two passengers, scheduled for a US commercial airline, were killed. This was the smallest number in the mid -20th century to 15 years.
Considering the crash on Wednesday, the number of passengers died was smaller than in the 2011 to 2025 period than the 15 years before 2010s.
And the safe period is part of several decades of increasing US safety.
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, 706 passengers in US commercial airlines were killed from 2000 to 2009, including 245 passengers who died on September 11. The number of 706 is more than 11 times over the past 15 years.
The number of this 706 has decreased since the 1990s. In the 1990s, 784 passengers were killed by US commercial airliners.
Surprisingly, the number of 784 is less than the previous year. In the eight -year stretch from 1982 to 1989, 984 passengers, which are planned for commercial airliners in the United States, were killed. Including chartered flights or non -regular flights, the number jumps to 1,400 north.
(Note that many passengers were killed in the 1980s, including 243 people who died in the infamous bread AM 103 “Locker Bee Bombing” in 1988.)
Currently, the number higher than the zero is too much to die on an airplane, but the number of passengers killed by US commercial airliners in the past 15 years (62) is about 1/16. 1980s.
The decline in passengers is even more prominent, considering that more people are flying. For example, in 2019, more than 900 million people boarded a US commercial aircraft. Less than 300 million boarded commercial airliners in 1982.
Combining the fact that passengers are increasing and the number of deaths is decreasing, we are seeing the possibility that passengers will die less than 1/45 on US commercial airliners 40 years ago.
As my colleague’s hunter and Buckley stated, “I’m much more likely to be killed by shark attacks than to die in an airplane CRASH accident, or much more likely to have quadrdet. ”
And there is a similar tendency around the world. According to hunters and backley quoted from MIT, “It is only about 1/38 of the number that is likely to die in an airplane accident compared to the level of the late 1960s and 1970s.” I found it.
However, not only the number of deaths, but also the number of large -scale fatal crash drops.
From 1982 to 1989, there were more than 100 deaths and five airline crashes among the commercial airliners in the United States. There were four in the 1990s. There was one in the 2000s, more than 23 years ago (November 2001).
There are 19 different incidents from the airline passenger, which is scheduled for 1982 and 1989, using another squirrel. There were three different incidents from 2010 to the present, including 11).
Perhaps the best way to focus on this is to compare flights on airplanes with car driving. After all, that is what we do every day. Furthermore, if you do not travel by plane, it is a way for many of us to travel long distances.
To do so, you can rely on your colleagues, Chris Ishido, who wrote a lot about the safety of the airline. One of my favorite quotes from the article I wrote last year came from Anthony Brickhouse, a clashed investigator and a professor of aviation safety of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical.
Brick House said, “When you arrive at the airport and step into the pressurized tube, it is the safest part of your trip … you have increased the risk of driving at the airport.”
In recent memories, the risk of flying by airplane, in terms of the mortality per 100 million miles, did not come to the risk of traveling by car in the United States. In most cases, airlines are far below 1/10 of the ground vehicle level.
Neither of these statistics does not mean that airline safety cannot be improved. We must.
What these statistics means is that I intend to continue riding a commercial jet.
Just when I do that, I keep the odds to myself -over and over again.
