According to the study, the motorcycle, with 16 fatalities per 100 million person kilometers, is the most risky way to of all transport means. Second most dangerous is walking by foot, then the bicycle and the driving in a car. Aviation is at the second last position of the list with only 0,08 fatalities per 100 million passenger kilometers.
Statistics are only a very limited means of describing the level of safety.
Safety should not become routine. And, aviation should not lull to sleep because of a comparison with other transport means. Only because flying is just a little safer than riding a bicycle, it does not automatically mean that we should relax our striving for flight safety. Vineries along the river Mosel are using the rotary aircraft to fight mildew. 100 Diamond makes a virtue of necessity.