Therefore, the odds of being on [a] given departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade. By contrast, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are about 1 in 500,000. This means that you could board 20 flights per year and still be less likely to be the subject of an attempted terrorist attack than to be struck by lightning.
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FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror
Maybe if Obama wasn’t so soft on lightning we could all sleep more soundly.
