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Nate Silver on the Risks of Airplane Terrorism - Schneier on Security
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Nate Silver on the Risks of Airplane Terrorism. Over at fivethirtyeight.com, Nate Silver crunches the numbers. And concludes that, at least as far as terrorism is concerned, air travel is safer than it's ever been:. Because over the past decade, the risk of airplane terrorism has been very. Assuming an average airborne speed of 425 miles per hour, these airplanes were aloft for a total of 163,331,261 hours. Therefore, there has been one terrorist incident per 27,221,877 hours airborne. This can a...Main ...