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Comment by wat10000

17 hours ago

If randomly distributed, one in a million flights crashing and killing all passengers means that one in a million passengers dies.

The US sees about 25,000 airline flights per day, or around 9 million per year. So with one in a million flights crashing, we'd expect roughly 9 crashes per year.

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