Originally Posted by
falco
I think that those statistics hold in general but not for people who fly a lot - like many here on FT. This is just as the chances of dying by electric shock are very low, but go up signifigantly if you are an electrician.
Yes, but consider that if the OP keeps that level of flying up for 50 years, he's still only facing a 1 in 200 chance of biting it in a plane crash. That is trivial. The odds of something else killing him in that time frame are overwhelmingly greater.