Whether the aircraft is valid - the safest vehicles
Travels / / December 19, 2019
If you shudder at the thought of flights, remind yourself about the statistics accidents.
Few drinks sedative before getting into the car. But many are afraid to fly. But the next time you go to the airport, remember that the airplane, according to statistics, the safest form of transport.
It's hard to believe when you hear about the fall of the aircraft in the news. But this message fall into the news feeds precisely because disaster - such a rarity. The authors of the blog Mental Floss collected Statistics of deaths in airplanes and other modes of transport.
According toRoad Crash Statistics Security Association International traffic (ASIRT), the world's road accidents kill about 3287 people daily. It turns out about 1.3 million people a year. In addition to that 20-50 million more wounded and injured.
Compare these figures with those of commercial airlineWho submitted2017 safest year on record for commercial passenger air travel Dutch experts.
For every 16 million flights account for only one crash.
In another studyComparing the fatality risks in United States transportation across modes and over time, For every billion passenger-miles, the done on the car, we have 7.2 deaths. For aircraft, this value - 0.07.
Private jets are less safe than the commercial. They provide less security, but the pilots did not pass such a strict selection rules. And still much less people killed in private airplanes than in other modes of transport.
If you do not carry turbulence During the flight, it is safer to choose a bus or train. And only in the last instance think about the car. Such a conclusion can be drawn from the statisticsTransportation Fatalities by Mode vehicle accidents in the United States.
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