Originally Posted by
HercDriver130
thats right sky... no risk in being a firefighter or police officer.... base line stats... approx 110 firefighters die in the line of duty in this country each year... with another 20000 or so injured. Police officers.... its depending on where you look, between 100 and 200 police officers killed each year in the line of duty... with more that 50000 more assaulted or injured while on duty.... yep...no risk in that job. just saying.....
There are many more police and firefighters in the US than pilots. Of course they will have more deaths than pilots. I have been a volunteer firefighter and small city full time firefighter and to this day do not have a friend or acquaintance that got so much as a scratch on the job.
As a pilot however I lost plenty of friends.
Skyhigh