Okay, so maybe flying *is* dangerous...

George Patterson wrote:
Roger wrote:

That doesn't make sense as commercial aircraft travel is considered
about the safest form of travel. Of course they could be including
crop dusters. PPL would not, or should not be in that category.

They said they're including all types of professional pilots. Crop dusters and
bush pilots included.


It isn't dangerous to go skydiving (1-in-10000 chance of dying) once.
But "being a regular skydiver" where one jumps 100 or perhaps 1000
times in a lifetime gives you a much less trivial chance of being
killed.

These numbers would be more interesting if they broke out airline
flying by regional/commuter versus longer-haul ops. My brother-in-law
flies 767s for UPS on international routes, but started out on a Beech
1900 with Mesa. At Mesa he might have made 6 or more flights in one
day, versus UPS where he might do 12 in a month. IIRC risk on 121
airlines is proportional to the # of TO/landings.

-cwk.