Is Air Travel Safer Than Car Travel?

You may think that traveling by plane is inherently more dangerous than driving a car. After all, the aircraft accident is miserable than the life caused by a car accident, injury, physical damage. Several US government statistics can reveal this problem

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration prepares and studies accident statistics across the country. According to millions of accidents and other statistics in 2008 the traffic safety facts, 27 people per 100 million cars have died. By contrast, the proportion of 1998 was 58 deaths per 100 million miles.

The National Traffic Safety Commission creates aerial accident data. According to preliminary statistics in 2008, there were only 20 accidents occurred in airlines operating regular flights in the United States. This will allow you to achieve accidents with almost zero mileage per million. Only five people suffered serious injuries

Absolutely, driving is more dangerous, there are over 5 million accidents and 20 flight accidents. Each 100 million mile pit is compared directly rather than driving 27 deaths and 80 injured in-flight deaths, and almost intact casualties.

The National Security Council created a 2008 mortality table and further explained the relative risk of flight and driving safety. The probability of death due to a car accident is calculated as lifetime 98. According to the table, in the case of aviation and space transportation (including air taxis and private jets), the 7178 odds for lifetime is one.

Statistically, flight is safer than driving. However, David Ropeik, director of risk communication at Harvard Public Health Graduate School, said that the foundation of risk perception is more than just a fact and may be more dangerous. Driving provides more personal control and makes it feel more secure. In addition, the crash of an airplane crash is catastrophic, putting out more dead at a time, it attracted more attention and made people more sensitive to them. Since the car accident happens everyday and loss occurs over time, the overall impact is not so obvious.

Aurelio Locsin has written since 1982 as a professional. He published his first book in 1996 and is writing many online publications, often dedicated to consumers, business and technology topics. Roksin holds a bachelor's degree in science and technology communication from the University of Washington.

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Air travel is the safest means of transportation known to people. It is safer than traveling by car or ship. Many people remember the tragedy of Malaysia Airlines saying that air travel is not safe. This is just billions. I have flights every day. They are not thinking about the many traffic accidents that we know every day in the news. I strongly believe that air travel is safe in today's world. There are many rules and restrictions when flying to prevent people from flying in the air. From the beginning of the flight, the technology has been greatly improved, and this can minimize the danger of passengers, if not fully released from danger at all.

If the risk is measured in terms of the number of deaths per kilometer of passengers, the air travel is about 10 times safer than the movement of the bus or train. However, if you use death statistics per travel, air travel is more dangerous than traveling by car, train or bus. Therefore, aviation travel insurance is relatively expensive - insurance companies usually use death statistics for each trip. According to statistics per mile there is a big difference between aircraft safety and small private jet safety that aircraft are 8.3 times safer than small aircraft.