Here’s a mind-bender: the odds of dying in a plane crash are about 1 in 11 million. Meanwhile, your chance of being struck by lightning in any given year is closer to 1 in a million. Does that make you nervous about thunderstorms? Didn’t think so.
Consider this: Ryanair flies over 100 million passengers a year without a single fatality in its history. That’s not luck—that’s engineering and training on steroids.
So when you ask “how many planes crash a day,” the real answer is: barely any. Yet every single day, 100,000 flights take off and land safely. That’s a silent miracle we ignore because it’s, well, boring.
