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Are private planes really more dangerous than flying commercial? What about more dangerous than driving? Well, the answer to the first is yes, and to the second is it depends. The fatality rate for private hovers at just over 1 death per every 100,000 hours flown, this is much higher than your 1 in 10 million chance of dying from a commercial crash. But when it comes to flying private vs driving the numbers aren’t quite as clear cut. According to the nhtsa,
The driving fatality rate was 1.1 deaths per 100 million vehicle-miles traveled. And since planes measure hours not miles we need to convert that so assuming an average vehicle speed of 50 miles per hour, the fatality rate for automobiles translates to 1.1 per every 2 million hours. So that means one hour in a private jet is 21 times more likely to have a fatality but this isn’t an entirely fair comparison because jets fly a lot faster than people can drive so if you compare danger per mile flown vs danger per mile driven, you’ll find that private planes are safer than cars with ⅙ the accidents per mile.
