Your article tells us there are 65 times fewer deaths per mile traveled in flying commercial aircraft than in driving. Fear of being killed in traveling is, I submit, based not on safety per mile traveled but on safety per trip taken. Further, fear of flying is based on the manner of death. If cars, before they were about to have a fatal crash, shot up 3 miles into the sky and dropped to Earth, they would be far less popular.
H. Charles Romesburg Logan, Utah
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