Letters

摘要

In the table of transport risk accompanying Michael Bond's article on risk perception (30 August, p 34), a more meaningful statistic than passenger deaths per distance travelled would be deaths per passenger journey: I am interested in my chance of arriving safely, no matter how far I have travelled. And for aviation, most deaths occur at or near takeoff and landing, rather than in the long distances travelled in flight.rnLooking for data, I found instead another interesting comparison. According to a 2003 report by the European TransportrnSafety Council there are 0.035 passenger deaths per 100 million kilometres of air travel but 16 per 100 million travel hours.