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Originally posted by Mr Mephisto
It's MUCH more appropriate to fear that the big metal bird will fall out of the sky... 
Mr Mephisto
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Not exactly (but I like the way you think).
Carried to two decimal places, the average fatality rate per 100,000 hours flown by large-transport commercial aircraft since 1992 is 0.00. Of course we know that, however scarce they are - accidents happen. The Excel sheet on which I viewed this information only carried numbers to two decimal places.
If carried to three decimal places, the largest it could be is 0.004 per 100,000, That works out to a worst-case percentage rate of 1 fatality per 25 million hours flown. I doubt the flight to San Francisco takes that long (unless it's on America West, of course

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Even the most seasoned business travelers average less than 500 hours per year in the air - that gives them a fifty-thousand year cushion.
Relax - have some peanuts.