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Dicska@lemmy.world 1 month agoI wonder how that changes if we include private planes, helicopters and basically everything that humans fly directly or indirectly.
Comment on Anon wants to ride a zeppelin
Dicska@lemmy.world 1 month agoI wonder how that changes if we include private planes, helicopters and basically everything that humans fly directly or indirectly.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Wow, you did the math like a pro! Thanks for crunching the numbers, I had no idea it would be that bad.