Flying

It's amazing how safe its become.

One of my favorite recent comedy clips is one by Louis CK entitled: Everything is Amazing and Nobody is Happy.

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxvWndNm08c57musqcf9XME3L0ny9lB81Y?feature=shared

<If you didn’t watch that clip it’s basically a celebration of flight.>

This leads me to today’s post.

Flying is amazingly safe.

Compared to the post-war period, we have gone from an average of 10-15 fatal accidents per 1 million flights to just .11 today! And if we change the focus to deaths, in 1959, there were 1,062 fatalities on commercial aircraft worldwide. In 2021 there were just 121!

Now those stats are going back to the 1950s, but here’s the chart which also inspired this post. It chronicles advancements in safety from the 70s.

As Louis said, flying is incredible. We should be appreciative of how great it is every time we don’t need to use roads to take a vacation. It’s that good.

The fact that it’s also insanely safe is even better.

After the paywall, we chronicle just why it’s become so safe.