Scandinavianbluebird wrote:Very easy answer. Cars have a higher accident rate, well. Just because there are a lot more of them. The same for busses. Well, not accident rates, but when fatality, the increase because threre are more people on a buss than in a car. The safest way to travel in this world is by a airplane. Teo reasons for that friend. Fewer flight pr person, and the insanely pedantic service regulations. On commercial flights that is. So if you want to twist number, help yourself. Easy making an argument either way using semantics..
That’s not how it works.
You don’t seem to be grasping the notion of a rate. It doesn’t matter how many there are on the road or in the sky for example, it’s a rate - essentially like a percentage.
2.4 in 100,000 flights of this kind result in serious accident. That number is the same if there is only 1 plane in existence or 50 million.
What you are thinking of is fatality number, which can be misleading due to the differing frequency in travel. But what I have given you is an accident rate, so amount in each vehicle or how many there are is irrelevant.
Planes are safer simply because they are, not because the stats are massaged that way. It means like for like, for every 100,000 car journeys there is ‘x’ amount if incidents, for every 100,000 flights there is ‘x’ amount of incidents. It’s directly comparable and cannot he manipulated.