1/100 PPLs will die flying,
Like others who commented on that, I am always bemused by people who fling utterly absurd "statistics" into a discussion without a second's thought along the lines of "hang on, that can't be right". That was my initial reaction to seeing the assertion. It took googull about 1/10 of a second to bring up a
table of EASA and UK National licence holders broken down by age and sex (sorry, couldn't resist) and another 30 seconds to work out that if the assertion were true, we would be reading about an average of somewhere between 2 and 3 PPL/NPPL etc holders dying while flying every week, assuming that nearly all PPL holders hold both UK national and EASA licences (see the note at the bottom of the table.)
So I too "......would be grateful for the source of that information, abgd.
Thank you."