My point is that he’s wrong — about both the number of fatal crashes and total fatalities..

Using Wikipedia’s List of Accidents and Incidents Involving Commercial Aircraft, I manually totalled the fatal US crashes:

1970 10-2 31dead

11-14 75 dead



1971 6-6 49 dead

6-7 28 dead

7-30 0 dead

9-4 111 dead



1972 3-3 16 dead

5-30 4 dead

6-29 13 dead

12-8 43 dead

12-29 101 dead



1973 7-23 38 dead

7-31 89 dead

9-27 11 dead

11-3 3 dead



1974 1-30 97 dead

3-13 36 dead

9-11 72 dead

12-1 3 dead

12-1 92 dead



1975 1-9 14 dead

6-24 113 dead

8-30 10 dead


1976 4-27 37 dead



1977 4-4 72 dead

4-20 6 dead (Skynyrd)

12-13 29 dead

12-18 3 dead



1978 3-1 5 dead

9-25 142 dead

12-28 10 dead



1979 5-25 273 dead

5-30 17 dead

6-17 1 dead



1644 total deaths, a far cry from “7,063 fatalities.”



34 total fatal crashes

One every 3.5 months, a far cry from “every month”.

Now would be a good time to admit you blindly accepted stats from a poster who didn’t know what he was talking about and came after one who did.