Every year at least one commercial airline flight crashes. That’s still an enviable safety record.
It is amazing when you think that 24/7, every moment 50,000 planes are in the air, all over the globe.
That means there are about 500,000 people in the air at any moment!
Many of these flights are cargo planes, so my estimate is conservative...
50,000 X 10 = 500,000.
Other estimates would be higher. I tried to find data on number of passengers, and I found one hat aid the major US airlines have, on average, 120 passengers per flight. I reduced my number for small planes, cargo planes and military aircraft.
Still, we have a city of people airborne at any moment, globally!
Yes, gravity is not a friend of the humanoid species.