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Poster: Lyndon Larouche
Subject: RE: Is plane travel still one of the least safe forms of transportation?
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kibitzer wrote:

Though these stats are from the UK, I suspect they pretty much apply in the U.S.: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_safest_mode_of_transport

"Air travel is the least safe mode of transport per passenger-hour, and it is the 2nd safest mode per passenger-km." [Rail is the safest by each criterion.]

In general, a commercial passenger flight is significantly safer than driving the same distance.

There was a story in the Economist about this, 15yrs ago or so.
If you measure just the first 2:00 and last 2:00 of each flight, then flying is a little safer than driving.
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