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As long as you're comparing cars and air travel, I'll point out that the aviation industry lies with statistics when they present the numbers.

When comparing safety within aviation, they talk about deaths per departure.

When comparing safety between aviation and cars, they suddenly change their metric and talk about deaths per mile, making aviation look much better.

I'm not saying aviation is worse than cars if you do a fair comparison; I haven't done the math. Maybe it's still better. But still they are fudging things in their own favor.

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per departure comparison makes sense if the risks are concentrated in things that are 1:1 with departures. https://accidentstats.airbus.com/statistics/accident-by-flig...

Comparing different operators within aviation, using a rate per departure makes sense I think.