Well, that’s a rather unsettling question to start your day, isn’t it?
Fortunately, blogger Jesus Diaz is here to reassure you: You are twenty times more likely to be killed by lightning than a terrorist attack. (Somewhere, a Congressman has just asked a staffer to start drafting anti-lightning legislation.)
In an entertaining infographic over at the gadget site Gizmodo, Diaz writes that over the last ten years, there has one terrorist attack for every 27.2 million hours flown, or about one every 11.2 billion miles in the air. That’s the equivalent of over 24,000 trips to the Moon and back.
See? Nothing to worry about. Carry on with your day safe in the knowledge that the odds are overwhelmingly on your side.
Check out Gizmodo’s chart here.