Originally Posted by woog315

Commercial pilot is the 3rd deadliest job out there. Aviation is very safe, but when you are flying 13-20 days out of the month for decades of your life, your odds of being involved in something bad increase exponentially. There are multiple studies confirming this (simply number of job related fatalities per 100k jobs). Logging and commercial fishing are the two more dangerous jobs as far as mortality goes.

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