I wonder how that changes if we include private planes, helicopters and basically everything that humans fly directly or indirectly.
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vox@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
planes crash every day
what?!
Dicska@lemmy.world 11 months ago
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It seems to rather drastically. When looking it up the average for commercial aircraft is 0.01 fatalities per 100,000 hours of flight time, however when I looked for data that included non commercial craft that figure jumps to 1.19 per 100,000 hours yielding a fatality, and 6.84 per 100,000 yielding a crash of any sort.
I then googled to find the average daily flight hours, and while I couldn’t find that, I did find the total flight hours in 2018, which came out to 91.8 million flight hours, or 251,507 flight hours daily, which should result in an average of 17 crashes per day, and an average of 3 fatalities per day, globally.
Honestly that’s a remarkably low rate of failure.
Dicska@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wow, you did the math like a pro! Thanks for crunching the numbers, I had no idea it would be that bad.
authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
only if you count general aviation, commercial airlines crash less than once a month. OP is clearly just an agent of Big Blimp trying to destroy the reputation of the honorable aviation industry
shottymcb@lemm.ee 11 months ago
A lot less if you’re only counting advanced democracies. The last multi-casualty commercial plane crash in the US was in 2009, 15 years ago. I only make that multi-casualty caveat because otherwise you get weird one offs like a guy running into a landing strip and getting run over.
Even the one in 2009 was a fairly small propeller plane.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Let’s be honest. The airline disaster in recent history was when a door fell off and literally no one died.
Even the worst most unsafe aircraft are pretty reliable
Eccitaze@yiffit.net 11 months ago
It’s amazing what proper regulations that are designed to prioritize safety over profit can accomplish, and how quickly stark examples of the dangers start happening when those regulations are sidestepped or dismantled…