Odds of a plane crashing due to turbulance?

Question

What are the odds of a plane crashing due to turbulence? What about just crashing in general? Please anwer both if you could. Thank you!

Answer 1

The chances are extremely low, only a few hundred people of the 6 billion people in the world will be involved in a crash each year, compared to the 1 in 6 people who will get in a car crash in their life.
I have never heard of turbulence bringing down an aircraft, mainly because they would never report it that way. It would be structural failure, which is the least common type of failure.
Even when there is structural failure, its only critical half the time. There have been times when the whole top of an airliner had been ripped off and everyone was exposed, and other times when the cargo doors on 747's would rip off and take a big part of the side with it, but the aircraft survived and the problems were fixed.
There was even a time when an engine exploded and the shrapnel destroyed all three hydraulic systems, and the plane still landed using its remaining engines to steer with variable thrust, and climb and descend by varying the speed.
Just the other day a plane had a crash landing on I-95 and the plane broke apart around the pilot and left him sitting in his seat holding the controls and the rest of the plane was gone.
crashes are so rare that you really dont even have to think about it. Airliners can last 100,000hrs, and almost 100% will never crash.

Answer 2

Turbulence on commerical flights is nothing. Just speed up and turn on anti ice.

General aviation flights, you could crash. But very rare.

Crashing. Mostly pilots use autopilot which is perfect. Crashes only occur when there is bad weather and/or a system has failed on an airplane.

The odds of crashing: 5% in commercial aircraft.
10% in General aviation aircraft.

Answer 3

The risk from 2000 to 2005 was one flight in 22.8 million. A 60% drop from the 1990's. The odds are almost too minute to comprehend. At that rate, a traveler would have to fly every day for more than 64,000 years before dying in an accident.

Hope i could help (:
My dads a pilot
and I got that info from him.

Answer 4

iv been flying almost all my life. i hold Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) With over 16,500 total flying hours, and am a captain of an airline, but anyway the odds of a plane crash do to turbulence is very low, but there are a lot of factors that play a part in turbulence crash. such as your cruising altitude, cruising speed, also what kind of storm if any pilots fly in. including wind sheer and speed. lots of factors play in part... my suggestion if you want to learn about aircraft what makes them fly, go to
www.aopa.com (airplane and owner pilot associate)

Answer 5

The last number I remember hearing about dying in an airline crash was one in about 7 million. Compare that to a car which is something like 1 in 100,000. So driving to the airport is still the most dangerous part of your flight. Don't know about turbulence because it very rarely happens.

Answer 6

AA 587 crashed due to wake turbulence.

Answer 7

You can almost consider it as nil.

Till date, no aircraft was brought down by turbulence. As for the non turbulence crashing, it is as John B said.

Answer 8

well youd need to take the number of planes that travel throughout the whole world in a day and then put a one over it. theres probably like 1000+ planes that depart throughout 24 at one airport X each airport. yeah just get on the plane and relax. because theres no odds, its really whenever God, chooses for you to die.

Answer 9

Lots of variables here.

Commercial passenger flights: exceptionally rare on both regards.

General aviation: more common, but still rare

Answer 10

Low. Though it depends on how the pilot handles it. Example in '01 when the tail of an A300 (American Airlines Flight 587) separated because the pilot used the rudder too aggressively.