The plane is much safer then the car, because it would be so hard for someone to crash it these days when airport securite is so tight. while someone could walk up to you in your car and just shot you.
I believe most of you fellows are not seeing the fact as to why the plane is supposedly safer.
Of course statistics will show that the plane is much safer than a car or similar vehicle. Why? Almost every person (over the age of twenty) in America has a car; how many of those citizens own some sort of aviation vehicle? There you go. If every person in America owned a plane, and used say plane as much as there average transportation, there would be just as many (or almost just as many) accidents in the air as there are on the ground.
Furthermore... well, that is actually the whole of it, the simple fact that most people drive cars over planes, that we come to the fact that a car will bring about more injuries/fatalities than any plane ever will.
But what, in all honesty, is the point of this topic? Really no one is going to say that a car is safer than a plane, since when one is in a car there are so many ways for them to be injured/killed that is in no fault of their own.
well... actually it doesnt really matter its about the driver/pilot who is driving the plane/car.. but the only thing is that a car is on ground so its safer...when you make an accident you still got your seatbelt and airbag too protect you and if a plane falls down than only thing you can do is hope or use a parachute but still you lost a plane..
Of course statistics will show that the plane is much safer than a car or similar vehicle. Why? Almost every person (over the age of twenty) in America has a car; how many of those citizens own some sort of aviation vehicle? There you go. If every person in America owned a plane, and used say plane as much as there average transportation, there would be just as many (or almost just as many) accidents in the air as there are on the ground.
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And if everyone owned a plane, there will be more OH THE HUGE MANATEES.
Even taking that into account, a simple correlation of odds, which accounts for variations in numbers, shows that aircraft are far safer than cars. It's not a matter of there being more cars so the odds are increased, odds stay the same regardless of mass numbers. The issue with cars is that there is congestion, pedestrian traffic, multiple distractions, people driving who are unfamiliar with their vehicle, people who are not expert drivers, and people who drive vehicles with poor maintenance records.
In commercial aircraft this is mostly eliminated. There is, for all intents and purposes, no traffic (with the exception of at the airports and there's a team of experts directing that traffic), the planes have much stricter maintenance guidelines to reduce the risk of malfunction, the operators (pilots) are not only experts, but are augmented by extremely advanced computer software.
The point is, most car crashes include drunk and violent drivers, and airplanes include huge families, and children and babies. I think that it would be safer to be in a plane then a car since anything can happen in a car, one false move and you crash into another car or swirl to the edge, and if you let go to the steering wheel thing on an airplane you wont die immediately, you still have time to fix whatever you did. Airplanes also have parachutes. Cars do not. Depending on the location, quality, traffic, wheather, and soberness (is that even a word?) it can determine which one is safer.
