on the safety of flying
according to this
General Aviation Safety
we have a 16 people wll die for every 1 million hours in a light aircraft
we have a .85 chance of dying for every 1 million hours in the car
so per flying hour in a ligh aircraft we are 20 times as likely to die as driving
in a jet airliner we have a .34 chance of dying per million hours
in a turbo prop commercial aircraft we have about 1.7 chance of dying so as safe as a car per hour
on the same website
Diamond Katana Review -- DA20-A1 Rotax-powered
it claims that in a da 20 diamond katana there is 2 fatalities per million flight hours so on average 8 times safer than the average but one could argue that the aircraft probably covers 150 miles in an hour where as in the car in the uk one would be lucky to cover 70 miles in the hour (legally) so theoritaclly as safe and faster, for a long journey.