Flying is the safest form of transportation. The risk of a fatal accident is less than 1 in several million commercial flights.

In 2024, there were 40.6 million commercial flights and only 7 fatal accidents, which equals one accident for every 5.8 million flights.

In comparison, road transport causes more than 1.3 million deaths per year worldwide, according to the WHO.

Traveling by car is 100 times more dangerous than flying, when measured by the number of deaths per kilometer traveled.

Trains are safer than cars but less safe than airplanes: their mortality rate is about 10 times higher than that of commercial aviation.

The probability of dying in a plane crash is lower than that of being struck by lightning or winning the lottery.

Most air accidents occur during takeoff or landing, which are the most critical phases of the flight.

Evacuation protocols are designed to empty an aircraft in under 90 seconds, even if only half of the exits are used.

Turbulence, even severe turbulence, rarely poses a real danger to the integrity of the aircraft or its occupants.

The perception of air travel being unsafe often increases due to media coverage, not because of an actual rise in accidents.