Scared to Fly?
Over the years, the airline industry has made a multitude of safety innovations from an arc fault breaker to detect faulty wiring to devices designed to prevent fuel tanks from exploding. Yet, many people are far more afraid of flying than they are of getting into car (remember Meg Ryan, in French Kiss?) – though your odds behind-the-wheel aren’t as good as in the air.
- The chances of being involved in an airplane crash is 1 in 11 million.
- The chances of being killed in an automobile accident are 1 in 5000.
- According to Time Magazine, more than 500 times as many people are killed on
October 29th, 2008 in
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very interesting stats there have been many saftey innovations in the last decade and saftey is always at the forfront of new development