• Question: What is more likely a plane or spaceship crash?

    Asked by 754tch52 to Vinita, Kirsty, Col Op, Charlie 🚀, Andrea on 15 Jun 2016.
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      Andrea Boyd answered on 15 Jun 2016:

      There are way more planes than spaceships so by frequency planes. But by crashes per flight then space.

      23,806 plane crashes since the beginning of flight resulting in 147,290 deaths.
      4 spaceship failures (they never got to crash land..) resulting in 18 deaths plus 10 spacecraft testing failures resulting in 14 astronaut deaths.

      Odds of a plane you’re on crashing are 1 in 30 million. Better chances of winning the lottery (1 in 14 million)

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