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Old 26th February 2016 | 11:48
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From: QLD - where drivers are yet to realise that the left lane goes to their destination too.
most effective use of the finite risk mitigation resources to mitigate the subtstantial risks.


From that it seems that worldwide, 61% of commercial aircraft accidents occur during first or last stages of a flight, so there's a reasonable chance that if it happens, it'll happen at an aerodrome (where the firies are).

From a 2008 CSIRO paper 'Decision Support for Risk Assessment of Mid-air Collisions via Population-based Measures"

Excerpt from Table 5

Individual risk for mid-air collisions in Australia - (1961-2004)

National Individual Risk due to the (entire) air transport sector
7.8 x 10-8
That's 0.000000078 chance of you being involved in a mid air in Australia while engaged in any form of civil aviation (admittedly fairly old data).


Now we all know that there are a lot more accidents due other causes than mid airs, so I would say the the money is going where the substantial risk is.

Anyway, this is taking this way off thread.
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