Is Air-travel Safe? "DATA NEVER LIES" - Media propaganda about airline safety issues - facts-based analysis. By Nitin Mahajan In 2019, some 4.5 billion passengers took 42 million flights worldwide. That is an average of 115,000 commercial flights every day, according to FlightRadar24 . Given these statistics alone, one can imagine how safe is air travel. The risk of experiencing anything close to dangerous is very less. According to industry research, 2017 was the safest year in history for commercial airlines. Dutch consultancy To70 and The Aviation Safety Network reported no passenger jet crashes anywhere in the world. This does not mean that there is low number of flights or passengers. But one can say that there might be some extraordinary safety measures that have been implemented, which resulted in low crashes. The number of fatalities has decreased by more than 45% in the last two decades (2000-2021...