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Do you have a source for that?

Global passenger volume in 2023 was about 8.6 billion, anticipated to be 9.4 billion in 2024. Total, global death count due to accident fatalities is measured in the hundreds. Usually 100-500 per year.

Global accidents per million departures usually hovers around 2, and that's not fatal accidents, which are about an order of magnitude less frequent.

Here's the 2023 ICAO safety report. [1]

[1] https://www.icao.int/safety/Documents/ICAO_SR_2023_20230823....

But nobody has ever died on my couch. There have been a few nonfatal accidents, but they mostly involved salsa going where it wasn't meant to and led to no injuries.

There were actually significantly more furniture tip-over injuries than airplane injuries since 2020. [1] So maybe you should add a yet ;)

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/02/03/1077996126/furniture-tip-over...

That's pretty much all things like bookshelves, dressers, and TVs. Couches are not high on the list of furniture with a propensity for falling on children who use them incorrectly.

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