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The Risks of Flying
Most flying decisions
are easy if the decision is based upon safety. Being safe does
not mean without risk. Engine operations are safe but some 8 percent
of accidents are caused by engine mechanical failure. Flight training
makes up 20% of total flight activity but only 12% of the accidents.
Midairs make less than 1.2 percent of aircraft accidents. Alcohol
and drugs barely appear. Takeoff and landings make 50%. Pilot
error 65% base cause of accidents. Risk of drowning at home in
your bathtub is five times greater than of dying in an aircraft
accident.
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed over 500,000 in the U.S.
and many millions more in the rest of the world. More people than
have died in all the wars of the world.
Those big jets are pretty safe! The brochure made a comparison
that your odds of dying in a commercial airliner are about the
same as being struck by a meteorite!
Approximately 20 accidents per year occur because of deliberate
flight in or near thunderstorms.
Written by Gene Whitt
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