FAO Norway regarding flying safety!

From a report on the BBC news website about the Taipei crash today:

Analysis: Richard Westcott, BBC Transport Correspondent

Yet again, we are looking at shocking pictures of a plane crash. You'd be forgiven for thinking that flying is getting more dangerous, but it's not. In fact, when you look at the number of crashes and fatalities compared to the huge number of people flying today, we are in a golden era of aircraft safety.

According to safety analysts Ascend, 2014 was narrowly the safest year ever, with one fatal accident per 2.38 million flights, compared to every 1.91 million flights in 2013. That does not include the loss of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, where 298 people died, which they count as a war loss rather than an accident.

Nearly a thousand people died in 2014, which is 700 more than the year before. Horrible numbers but compare that to the worst year, 1972, when 2,370 passengers were killed, and there was far less flying then, maybe a quarter of what there is today.

Nothing is ever without risk, but the chances of dying in an aircraft "accident" are lower than ever.

Posted By: Kirrie, Feb 4, 15:00:20