Is it safer to fly or drive when going on a long trip out of town?

How long is your trip....I always fly if my destination is more than one day away...

Statistically, flying is about six times safer per mile.

This question has been brewing in peoples minds since the dawn of comercial flight.
Statisticly, it isstill much safer than driving. Accidents with cars no one hears just how many fatalities; but when an aircraft goes down its world news!
I`ve flown to europe over 100 times, and in all my flying theres been just one incident(no injuries) Thats not bad. happy flying if you do !

The plane is safer, on average around six times safer per mile, an interesting fact though is if you plot the risk per mile versus the total distance you will find that the plane has even lower risk versus the car over long distance.

This is because the car has a risk that increases linearly with distance (the longer you are on the road the more chance of a crash), planes have a far lower linear increase with distance (the risk inside cursing flight is absolutely tiny versus a car) but has a base risk per trip to begin with (this is because takeoff and landing a consistent risk exists that is the same regardless of the distance of the flight).

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