Quote:
Originally Posted by BruceZ
Also, most airline crashes occur on take-offs or landings. They almost never just fall out of the sky. So I'm not sure how they evaluate risk per time flying since the longer the flight the safer it will be per time spent. Then the flights that crash on take-off are a lot shorter than the ones that crash on landings.
Ya and it would also depend on all sorts of other things too (city you drive in, kind of car you have, airline, type of driver you are, whether or not you wear your seat belt, highway vs. local etc.), which is probably why I was never able to find any reliable data on it