Whether you're a jet setter or a nervous flier, if you sit and think about it hard enough, the fact that we have built machines that soar into the sky for thousands of miles with hundreds of people aboard is baffling. Even though it's common to have flight jitters — flying is one of the safest modes of transportation. Wrapping our heads around flying can actually be a bit challenging; however, Professor Doug Drury, head of aviation at CQUniversity in Australia, is here to help answer our questions.
"One in over 200 thousand are the odds of you dying in a plane crash, and one in just a little over 100 are the chances of you dying in an automobile accident," says Drury. For comparison, according to the National Safety Council, your odds of dying in 2020 in the U.S. by drowning were 1 in 1,024, and choking on food ...
