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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am with OP. I hate flying. Luckily, I don't like travel, so I only do it out of necessity. 
Plus, statically speaking, the better measure of "safety" is based on the number of deaths per [i]passenger hour[/i] traveled. Cars and planes are very close based on that statistics. [/quote]

Nonsense. If you are choosing whether to fly or drive somewhere, it is deaths per mile that is the relevant criterion, statistically speaking.[/quote]
That is what it make it relevant to you: statistics as it relates to getting to a destination. The other camp prefers statistics as time of your life spent on activity. We are not arguing convenience. Whether you spend three hours out of your life flying or driving give you pretty much the same probability of dying. [/quote]

I just googled it and couldn't find anywhere where someone had calculated the stat but at this point I would not be surprised if in on a per hour basis flying is significantly safer than driving is at this point.

There were no commercial airline deaths anywhere in the world in 2017 and there has not been a commercial airline death in the US since 2009!

And flying in the US is not some fringe thing - there are over 10,000 commercial flights per day in the US moving over a million people per day

So at this point there are literally tens of millions of flown hours in the US since the last commercial fatality.

Dozens of people die every month in our region alone in auto accidents.[/quote]
The beauty of statistics. Let's omit all non commercial flights. People play lottery too. Slim chance but it can happen. Human reactions to "it can happen" varies. I hate losing that $2 more than I would love winning the jackpot. Humans are not rational (except for the  Lucas's ex-wife, who got a half of his Nobel prize for the rational expectations, based on their divorce decree)[/quote]

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