How safe is flying?

Air travel is one of the safest forms of transportation. In fact, you are more likely to be injured in a car accident on the way to the airport than you are in a plane crash. Here are some statistics that illustrate the safety of flying:

* In the United States, there have been only 14 fatal commercial airline accidents since 2000.

* The chance of being killed in a plane crash is 1 in 11 million.

* The chance of being seriously injured in a plane crash is 1 in 2 million.

* The fatality rate for commercial airline travel is 0.06 per billion passenger kilometers. This means that for every billion kilometers flown, there are 0.06 fatalities.

Of course, no form of transportation is 100% safe. However, air travel is one of the safest ways to travel.