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Yes, you can compare figures here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_accident

But it's anecdotal, I mean, realistically, the plane is still better for long distance.

You can sort by journeys, vs, km.



That seems to be sourced from a plain HTML page from 2001, reporting stats limited to the UK through the year 2000[1]. I guess it's not implausible, but it doesn't seem to line up with these more up to date US-based stats[2] where airline deaths are so close to 0 that it's hard to form a meaningful ratio between them and road deaths. If it were truly more dangerous on a per-trip basis, you'd expect the number to at least be a significant fraction.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010907173322/http://www.number...

[2] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...

Edit: Very good analysis done by another user, over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40822484


Thanks for finding out the info (especially for digging out the edit), it’s interesting to read




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