Plane crashes are rare, but passengers have a 96% chance of surviving. From 1983 to 2000, 568 crashes occurred in the US with 53,487 passengers, of which 51,207 survived. The annual odds of dying in a car accident are 1 in 5,000, while for domestic flights in the US, it is one in 11 million. The worst aviation disaster was on September 11, 2001, killing 2,907 people. The first fatal plane crash was in 1908, injuring Orville Wright and killing Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge.
Plane crashes are very rare, but even if they do happen, passengers have a 96% chance of surviving. To illustrate the point, planes crashed a total of 568 times in the United States from 1983 to 2000. There were a total of 53,487 passengers on those planes, and 51,207 of those passengers survived.
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For citizens flying domestic flights in the United States, the annual odds of becoming a victim are about one in 11 million. In contrast, the annual odds of dying in an automobile accident are 1 in 5,000.
The worst aviation disaster in terms of loss of life occurred on September 11, 2001. The crash of United Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center killed 2,907 people.
The first fatal plane crash occurred in the infancy of aviation on September 17, 1908 in Fort Myers, Virginia. The flight was the third in a series of tests to demonstrate the feasibility of including passengers on flights. The pilot, Orville Wright, was seriously injured and Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge of the Air Experiments Association died in the crash.
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