11-22-2018, 08:39 PM
(11-22-2018, 07:52 PM)plam Wrote:(11-22-2018, 05:02 PM)tomh009 Wrote: A good question! According to the stats, there were 75 deaths in the air transportation worker category -- and 70 of those were "commercial pilots". My suspicion is that the 70 includes all onboard staff at commercial airlines.
Nope, I'd guess that it's bush pilots. Scheduled airline service is probably one of the most safe activities we can do. General aviation, however, is much less safe. And bush pilots don't have flight attendants.
Anyone else notice the high fatality rate for drivers? Driving is dangerous! It's pretty high consequence for errors.
I noticed that, I was going to say I was surprised it wasn't higher, but I think professional drivers have a lower rate for a few reasons, one, they're probably better drivers, for two, many are probably less aggressive drivers, and they're also probably driving safer vehicles (at least safer for the vehicle drivers).
That's a good point about bush pilots, that's why I was surprised about airline pilots, but I didn't think there were all that many bush pilots anymore, and flying even smaller planes is still pretty safe.