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by pc86 163 days ago
Sorry I was unclear, I mean 50s or 70s air travel compared to present day air travel. (Which on reconsideration might not be particularly relevant haha)
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Lot of hijackings still to come in 1950...
Do you really think there are enough hijackings to meaningfully affect safety statistics?
Not very much but there were some years where hijackings were 5% to 10% of air travel deaths.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-fatalities-from-av...