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	Stats for Those Who Hate to Fly!

CulturalEngineer

6-5-2009 8:47 PM

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travel, airlines, statistics

CulturalEngineer says:

(Like ME!... I've got a flight next week and with all the news... well... )

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/65cfa41b-33f7-42ae-9a8b-7fb25dd181ea/49878DE8-B83B-45FF-B731-328D049DDA68/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm" href="http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.planecrashinfo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm"><H2 align="center" class="style12">Airline Accident Rates </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm">Aviation accidents are extremely rare, with the probability of a passenger being killed on a single flight at approximately eight million-to-one.  If a passenger boarded a flight at random, once a day, everyday, it would statistically be over 21,000 years before he or she would be killed.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm"><STRONG>The lower (more negative) the number         in the "Accident         Rate" column the          better the rate. Any accident rate below 0 is a better than average rate. Any accident rate above 0 is a worse than average rate. 
</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor="#e0cdb1"><tr><TD height="22"><STRONG>US Airways</STRONG></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm"><SPAN class="style2"> -0.35</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm"><STRONG>Accident
Rate</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm"><STRONG><BR /><DIV>
        Methodology:</DIV>
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        The Accident Rate is calculated as          follows:</DIV>
  <BR /><DIV>
               Accident Rate = D - (A *(B/C))</DIV>
  <BR /><DIV>
               Where:</DIV>
  
A = number of million flights completed by the airline
B =  adjusted fatal events for all airlines
C = number of million flights for all airlines<BR /><DIV>
               D = adjusted fatal events of the airline </DIV>
  
The Adjusted Fatal Event is calculated as follows:</STRONG></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/49878DE8-B83B-45FF-B731-328D049DDA68/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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