Air travel is exceptionally safe, but it falls prey to the law of large numbers: 99.9% success still means some people die every year
99.9% success would mean ~475 plane crashes during take-off and landing on Heathrow alone each day =)
99.9% success would mean ~475 plane crashes during take-off and landing on Heathrow alone each day =)
Was going off this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_busiest_airports_by_a...
Edit: Silly me, the stats are by year not by day as I was expecting. Guess it means only ~1.3 crashes at Heathrow each day