“They say that there are demonstrable statistic that show that the number of people missing airline flights that end up crashing is higher than the average number of people that miss flights.”
Well then let’s see the statistics. I can put limits on the numbers:
There are not that many flights that crash (100 per year?), and let’s assume an average of 300 seats per crash, and how many could miss a flight with 300 seats available? Even if you assume that all 300 passengers missed the flight that crashed (30,000 per year), that does not come close to the 93,000 commercial flights per day. If one person per flight missed it, that would be 93,000 missed flights.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090405222940AAgDZaF
http://www.quora.com/How-many-people-fly-domestically-in-the-United-States-each-day
Give the guy a break, he’s probably done more to help people prep than anyone else in the country.
As to what he said about missing flights, I had to do a double take also. I’m sure what he meant is something to the effect that if an average of 10 people are no-shows for a typical flight, there are statistics to show an average of maybe 18 people are no-shows for the flights that crash...just not worded too clearly.