‘The general odds are awfully good in an airplane.”
The general odds are good in an airplane unless you’re in a crash. I’ve never tried to count up the number of car crashes I’ve been in, at least a dozen. One rarely goes through more than one plane crash and lives to talk about it
Well yes, the odds of crashing are small unless you are in a crash.
When an aircraft has an accident it is generally bad. But that is balanced out by almost never having an accident. A far greater proportion of aircraft live out their service never having seen a mishap than cars or trucks do.