FACTORYATLASAbout a million people are
in the sky right now.
Roughly ten thousand airliners are airborne at this moment. One of them touches down somewhere on Earth faster than every second - and essentially every single one lands safely. Watch it happen.
Waiting for the first landing… they come about once a second.
A statistical feed, not radar: each landing is placed at random, weighted by the real regional share of departures.
You've watched 0 safe landings. At 2024's rate - one fatal accident per 5,800,000 flights - the first statistical accident is still 5,800,000 landings away: about 53 days of the entire world's air traffic, nonstop.
< 0.01% of the way there
244 fatalities among ~5 billion passengers carried in 2024 - about 1 in 20 million.
Board a flight every single day and your statistical wait for a fatal outcome is ~56,000 years.
IATA Safety Report, 2024: 7 fatal accidents in 40.6M flights.
A red dot would be a fatal accident. At 2024's safety rate you would fill this panel thousands of times before the first one appeared.