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Boston Red · 03-12-2008, 09:18 PM

By the way, here are the stats:

If we ignore property and bodily damage and focus on fatalities only, we
should look at fatality rates per passenger mile traveled. This require some
research. You can go to the National Transportation Safety board website
(http://www.itsasafety.org) to do some research or look at a summary table
here (http://hazmat.dot.gov/riskcompare.htm). According to the latter, each
year in the US 1 out of 6800 drivers dies in an auto accident. The rate for
airline passengers is 1 in 1.6 million.

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasc...9/gen99845.htm

03-12-2008, 09:18 PM	#13
Boston Red Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Braintree, MA Posts: 1,945	Re: Might want to think twice about flying Southwest Airlines By the way, here are the stats: If we ignore property and bodily damage and focus on fatalities only, we should look at fatality rates per passenger mile traveled. This require some research. You can go to the National Transportation Safety board website (http://www.itsasafety.org) to do some research or look at a summary table here (http://hazmat.dot.gov/riskcompare.htm). According to the latter, each year in the US 1 out of 6800 drivers dies in an auto accident. The rate for airline passengers is 1 in 1.6 million. http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasc...9/gen99845.htm