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levelsio added extreme sports data to airlinelist.com so users can compare…

Brief

levelsio updated airlinelist.com to include extreme sports so people can compare fatality rates alongside aircraft. He references a recent Cessna 421 Golden Eagle crash and cites an estimated fatality rate of roughly 1 death per 30,000 trips for that model, which he says is about 1,000 times higher than commercial aviation and roughly three times higher than the average helicopter.

Why it matters

levelsio added extreme sports data to airlinelist.com so users can compare fatality rates of extreme sports with airplanes.

Key details

  • The crash mentioned involved a Cessna 421 Golden Eagle; levelsio states that model has an estimated fatality rate of ~1 death per 30,000 trips.
  • levelsio claims that a Cessna 421 is ~1,000× more fatal per trip than commercial airliners and about 3× more fatal than the average helicopter.
Source evidence

Added extreme sports to airlinelist.com so you can compare the fatal rates with airplanes!

@levelsio (@levelsio)

Very sad news

Theis crash was in a Cessna 421 Golden Eagle, a plane with one of the highest fatal odds per trip of 1 death per ~30,000 trips

That's 1000x more fatal than flying a commercial plane (which are insanely safe)

And 3x more fatal than the average helicopter

— https://nitter.net/levelsio/status/2068447449203482873#m