And the Concorde went from being the safest commercial airliner ( because it
had never crashed) to being the most unsafe because it had one crash (based
on passenger mile flown by type).
Darn statistics!
"Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message
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Open letter to journalists: Statistics for 2001
General Aviation deaths per day (USA) 1.5
Deaths by bicycle per day (USA) 2.2
Deaths by drowning per day (USA) 11
Deaths on the job site per day (USA) 17
Death by automobile per day (USA) 117
Deaths by automobile (world) per day 548
What did you report on today?
Denny
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