Did You Know Flying is Getting Safer?
February 10th, 2008
Good news for travelers – especially anxious ones – comes as the statistics get added up for 2007. Whether you knew it or not, such an office as the Aircraft Crashes Record Office exists, and over in Geneva they’ve been busily calculating the figures for the air crashes during 2007 .
For the record, the ACRO considers an incident to be an accident if the plane is damaged enough that it has to be written off and not flown again – regardless of whether or not any passengers are harmed. Personally, I’m much more concerned about the crashes that present a risk to me, and the great news is that the number of crashes dropped to the lowest level since 1963.
The total number of crashes according to ACRO was 136, but 56 of these had no fatalities. If you’re a nervous flier, then think of these facts: a total of only 965 people were killed in plane crashes in 2007, compared with 1,000,000 in road crashes. If only 965 passengers out of 2.2 billion passengers carried are victims of fatal crashes, our chances of survival are still extraordinarily good.
It’s also useful to note that only 3 of the air crashes in 2007 had fatalities of more than 100 passengers, so it’s definitely true that those kind of crashes happen a lot more often on the cinema screen than in real life.
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