Is it true that statistically, you're more likely to die falling off a donkey than in a plane crash?

Question

Is it true that statistically, you're more likely to die falling off a donkey than in a plane crash?

Answer 1

If you fall off a donkey you probably have about 90% chance of living (unless the donkey's on the edge of a cliff). If you're in a plane crash you probably have about a 1% chance of living.

Statistically more people fall off of donkeys than are in plane crashes therefore there is more opportunity for people to die falling off a donkey.

Answer 2

Of course not. If you are in an airplane crash then the chances of your dying in the crash are about 99 out of 100. Your chances of dying if you fall off of a donkey are much less (unless of course you are on a cilff, as the previous answerer noted).

Answer 3

possibly, the chance of an aircraft crashing due to turbulence is one in a million

Answer 4

What do you think? Do you think there are accurate records of people who fall of a Donkey? Are you serious or are you on day release?????????

Answer 5

i cant see thats true - i fly regularly but ive never been on a donkkey so i would say if i was going to die one way or the other it would be through flying

Answer 6

um, i know that it's more likely getting shot in the shop you buy a lottery ticket than actually winning..

if that helps at all  :)

Answer 7

Don't know about that one but I do know that in the 20th century, more people died due to falling vending machines than being bitten by sharks.

Answer 8

It wouldn't surprise me if this was true. I don't know what the likelihood of you falling off a donkey is, but at the moment we are in a statistically extremely safe period for flying by commercial airlines - no passenger has been killed while flying with a European, North American, South American or Australasian airline since a plane crashed on takeoff from New York in October 2001. African airlines are a bit dodgier, and Russia's a bit doubtful, but on the other hand, the fact that Qantas has never lost a passenger in the 80 or so years they've been flying is quite famous.

This statistic doesn't apply to private planes and helicopters, of course.

Answer 9

that cant be right!

Ive never been on a donkey

Answer 10

no obviously not lol