Originally Posted by
Wexflyer
If you consider that many frequent flyers will end up flying a million or more miles during their lifetimes, then the chances of having an accident are not vanishing. Small, yes, but not vanishing.
I guess it depends on where you draw the line between small and vanishing. When the average stage length is around 1,000 miles and the chance of an incident is incredibly tiny the fact that you flew a million miles means you had 1,000 chances for something to happen, not a million. So the odds are still VERY heavily in your favor.