For a total of what? 500 dead? If that?

What is it going to take to get you to embark upon a proctocraniotomy?

Firstly, let's look at some actual air accident numbers from the charmingly but accurately titled [link|http://www.planecrashinfo.com|http://www.planecrashinfo.com]:

[link|http://www.planecrashinfo.com/more%20accidents%20lately.htm|http://www.planecras...ents%20lately.htm]

Clearly, we won't have the numbers for August 2005, but let's look at 2004.

[link|http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/RNotes/2005/809897.pdf|http://www-nrd.nhtsa...s/2005/809897.pdf]

42,636 fatalities in 2004. That's 3,553 deaths every month. There's an estimate that for every fatality on the roads in the USA, there will be 13 seriously injured. That makes a staggering 46,189 seriously injured every month.

The good news is that this was a reduction from 2003!

The bad news is that 11 states have worse fatality rates than Portugal, where red means "stop if you want to", and the motto is "we lift off for pedestrians".

[link|http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%20section/statistics/stats-usa_indiv-states_per-capita_2002.htm|http://www.driveands...r-capita_2002.htm]

The good news for you, Brenda, is that Missouri is the least worst of the worst states that are worse than the worse country!

And here's some accident rate information from planecrashinfo.com:

[link|http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm|http://www.planecrashinfo.com/rates.htm]

Look at Delta Airlines, the #1 rated US airline: 4 fatal events for...

EIGHTEEN POINT FIVE MILLION FLIGHTS

Here's the giant, enormous clue, Brenda:

Air travel is safer than driving by an enormous margin.

Now, can we PLEASE put a lid on this bullshit?