Comments on: Do Fatality Rates Drive Your Fear of Flying? http://fearlessflight.com/fatality-rates-and-fear-of-flying/ Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dingoklectos http://fearlessflight.com/fatality-rates-and-fear-of-flying/comment-page-1/#comment-14 dingoklectos Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:29:21 +0000 http://www.wpstudentwebsites.com/pepsicola/?p=168#comment-14 I think the reason why people are afraid of flying instead of driving is because of this: 1) In a mid-air collision or plane crash due to mechanical failure, almost always nobody survives. In a car crash, you have a chance of surviving. 2) Statistics does show 40000 die per year in car accidents vs 968 in plane crashes. But if you take a ratio of the #of fatal crashes over the number of total vehicles (land or air), you might get a REAL VALUE of the risk involved. I am not sure of how many cars are driven on an average in the US everyday, but I am sure its a lot more in number than the number of planes in service. I think the reason why people are afraid of flying instead of driving is because of this:
1) In a mid-air collision or plane crash due to mechanical failure, almost always nobody survives. In a car crash, you have a chance of surviving.
2) Statistics does show 40000 die per year in car accidents vs 968 in plane crashes. But if you take a ratio of the #of fatal crashes over the number of total vehicles (land or air), you might get a REAL VALUE of the risk involved.

I am not sure of how many cars are driven on an average in the US everyday, but I am sure its a lot more in number than the number of planes in service.

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