a lot.
I really have no idea. The stats are out there, but I don't feel like going to FAA.gov or somewhere to find it.
I am NOT discounting the deaths of the individuals you knew, Sula. The point to me restricting this to airline only crashes was to prove a point HERE...in THIS THREAD. And I think it has proved itself.
I deal with people everyday that (flight attendants and pilots) that have flwon with an airline for more than 30 years. 15 times a month, they fly anywhere from two to five "trips" a day.
If you say four trips in a day....that means more than 21,000 flights for these flight attendants with 30 years of airline service. Now, lets also figure that my airline alone has more than 3,000 flight attendants (I am not sure of the exact number...but I know it is more than 3000).
In the last 25 years, our airline has had three incidents where lives were lost. So, there are thousands and thousands of employees JUST at my airline that have flown more than 20,000 times without a crash.
I wonder how many of these FAs have been in car accidents in that same time period.