According to this document:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf
Note that professional airline pilots have the 3rd highest rate of occupational fatality (after professional fishermen and loggers). This rate is more than 3 times higher than that for people involved in driving professionally (according to the same table).
Presumably behind most of these pilots there were some passengers as well.
Not really huge news, as numbers were like this for a while (in particular statistics of rates per billion journeys have almost the same ratio) but a reminder still.