Fact is driving is safer.
Deaths per billion journey's:
Car: 40
Air: 117
Where are those stats from? They looks suspiciously to me like flying stats that include non scheduled air transport...ie light aircraft etc thrown in which probably skews it.
Also the 'deaths per journey' stat is misleading because all the deaths in that billion probably happened on only several aircraft, whereas the 40 deaths that supposedly happened in cars represents probably at least 20 accidents. What are your chances of being on several fatal crashes per billion plane journey? Almost nothing...
Lets say for argument's sake you will be in 5 fatal flying accidents for every billion journeys you take (117 deaths could be one accident but lets use 5 to illustrate the point)
But those 40 deaths as I said above will probably represent about 20 fatal car crashes, so rather than 5 plane crashes you will be involved in 20 fatal car crashes for every billion journeys...still think driving is safer?
