In the 1970s, there were approximately 6 fatal accidents per million commercial flights, translating to 1 fatal accident in every 165,000 flights. Over the past 50 years, there has been a significant decline in the rate of fatal airliner accidents.

Current data reveals a rate of around 0.5 fatalities per million flights.
Presently, it takes more than 2 million flights on average for a fatal accident to occur.