Three days ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared with 239 souls on board. Since then, around 9500 people have been killed around the world in automobile accidents.
Since year 2000, there have been about 69 major aviation disasters, commercial and military, excluding terrorist attacks. Around 8100 people died in those 69 disasters. Over the same period, perhaps 15 million people have died in automobile accidents.
At current rates, major aviation accidents will kill 62,000 people this century; automobile accidents will kill 115 million people.
To make aviation as dangerous as your daily commute, there would have to be 27 major air disasters every day. That would be about 10,000 major crashes per year. This century, we have seen roughly 5 per year.
The world you live in, and the world you hear about on the news, are two very different worlds.
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