How many angmoh planes had crashed in past 50 years?
And still more crashes to come.
How Safe Is Flying? A Look at the Numbers
According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), in 2015 there was
one commercial jet accident per 4.5 million flights. This was in line with 2014, when the number was one accident per 4.4 million flights, and better than 2013 (one accident per 2.4 million flights).
In 2015, there were just four fatal accidents with a total of 136 fatalities. (Note that the Germanwings crash and a suspected terrorist attack on Metrojet Flight 9268 are not included in these stats because they were judged not to be accidents; these add an additional 374 deaths.) Compare that to the period from 2010 through 2014, which had an average of 17.6 fatal accidents and 504 fatalities per year.
In 2015 the 510 total fatalities were out of more than 3.5 billion journeys. For perspective,
ABCNews.com reports that on average you would need to fly every day for 55,000 years in order to be involved in a fatal crash.