Passengering is safe. Piloting, less so. Just like riding in a bus is statistically safer than being a career driver. Because you get off the bus, and that driver does 7 more runs. Alongside a long-haul truck driver carrying zero people. Etc. But Piloting is more dangerous than driving a truck.
It’s pretty rare to hear about a commercial flight resulting in a crash or even death.
If you’re talking about commercial pilots flying around passengers then no it’s not dangerous at all, certainly not compared to truck drivers. To say it’s dangerous because they do it everyday is silly. Reality is it’s one of the safest forms of travel. Trucking is not nearly as safe and has a lot more risk factors involved.
If you’re strictly talking about bush pilots then you might have a case but there’s not as many bush pilots compared to commercial pilots in order for it to significantly skew the statistics.
A lot more truck drivers die in a year from accidents then commercial pilots. Calling it more dangerous is hella silly bro.
I mean, we’re talking pretty much anyone who flies an airplane for any commercial purpose. Bush flying, remote cargo flights in small aircraft, crop-dusting, helicopter lifting, hell even helicopter logging.
And while more truck drivers die annually than pilots, what we’re discussing here are RATES of death per capita, not individual deaths. An individual is statistically more likely to be killed flying as a commercial pilot (in any capacity) than a truck driver is to be killed while on the job.
I think the other person replied. We’re just talking statistics. No matter how you slice it, based on pilot on-the-job deaths per capita, flying a plane is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. 15x worse than the national average is pretty bad.
But I DO think a percentage of that is commercial. There’s only so many pilots in the world, and every time a crash happens, one of them dies. Think about it; if there were only 1 plane in the world and one pilot, when it did finally go down that would give pilots a 100% death rate, despite the fact the flight was statistically safe for passengers.
Real figures, if I’m catching good answers out of google, are about 12 deaths per capita for drivers, and 52 deaths per capita for pilots.
And yet they do, statistically, die more than most other jobs. Pilots have every business being on here because the comic creator just literally took a “top X dangerous jobs list” and turned it into a meme.
Passengering is safe. Piloting, less so. Just like riding in a bus is statistically safer than being a career driver. Because you get off the bus, and that driver does 7 more runs. Alongside a long-haul truck driver carrying zero people. Etc. But Piloting is more dangerous than driving a truck.
Piloting of what aircraft type?
It’s pretty rare to hear about a commercial flight resulting in a crash or even death.
If you’re talking about commercial pilots flying around passengers then no it’s not dangerous at all, certainly not compared to truck drivers. To say it’s dangerous because they do it everyday is silly. Reality is it’s one of the safest forms of travel. Trucking is not nearly as safe and has a lot more risk factors involved.
If you’re strictly talking about bush pilots then you might have a case but there’s not as many bush pilots compared to commercial pilots in order for it to significantly skew the statistics.
A lot more truck drivers die in a year from accidents then commercial pilots. Calling it more dangerous is hella silly bro.
I mean, we’re talking pretty much anyone who flies an airplane for any commercial purpose. Bush flying, remote cargo flights in small aircraft, crop-dusting, helicopter lifting, hell even helicopter logging.
And while more truck drivers die annually than pilots, what we’re discussing here are RATES of death per capita, not individual deaths. An individual is statistically more likely to be killed flying as a commercial pilot (in any capacity) than a truck driver is to be killed while on the job.
I think the other person replied. We’re just talking statistics. No matter how you slice it, based on pilot on-the-job deaths per capita, flying a plane is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. 15x worse than the national average is pretty bad.
But I DO think a percentage of that is commercial. There’s only so many pilots in the world, and every time a crash happens, one of them dies. Think about it; if there were only 1 plane in the world and one pilot, when it did finally go down that would give pilots a 100% death rate, despite the fact the flight was statistically safe for passengers.
Real figures, if I’m catching good answers out of google, are about 12 deaths per capita for drivers, and 52 deaths per capita for pilots.