I’m sure the numbers have shifted, but last time I did the math, you had to skydive 35 times per year to equal your chances of dying in a car during the same period. I know many people who would never consider skydiving once due to the risk, but don’t think twice about driving.
Jeremy Glover @JGrantGlover
12 Oct 2022
Driving is so routinized that people have no idea how dangerous it actually is, so I did a little math to provide some much-needed perspective. If air travel had the same fatality rate as driving, approximately 47 commercial flights would've crashed in 2019 with no survivors.
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Replying to @plinss
Does that include the flying in a small plane going up (more dangerous than commercial), or just the skydiving going down?

Oct 13, 2022 · 7:21 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
Just the skydiving part. Small planes are dangerous, but you *do* have a parachute 🪂 and can bail out if there are problems over 1000 feet (at pilot’s discretion). And you don’t have to land in the plane, which is the most dangerous part.
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Case in point: the-sun.com/news/5760817/mom… Everyone on board both planes survived.
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