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by Retric 2655 days ago
Depends on your assumptions, but safe aircraft will crash making the first data point meaningless as you are choosing it at the starting point. Second, you are not just running one trial on one design but many trails on many designs.

I suggest you try the math as the odds are reasonably high.

This changes if you start talking about crashes since the first commercial flight, but those are again different numbers.