December 11, 2019

Every Airplane Crash

Morbidly fascinating.  From Maps on the Web: Every Airplane Crash from 1919 to 2019.

Spoiler: After a hundred years, the total number of air causalities is just over 100,000.

By comparison, here are the number of vehicle casualties  globally in a single year:

In other words, a century of air fatalities is equivalent to a month of car deaths globally.

In the US, there are about 40,000 car deaths a year.  It took the first half century of flight (from 1919 to 1970) to reach that number, and then just 30 years (from 1970 to 2000) to double it.

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