Despite these disasters, the truth about most airplane accidents is that people do survive. In fact, according to the US government, 95.7 percent of the passengers involved in aviation accidents make it out alive. That’s right. When the National Transportation Safety Board studied accidents between 1983 and 2000 involving 53,487 passengers, they found that 51,207 survived. That’s 95.7 percent. (from Paul) Ben Sherwood: The Three Myths About Plane Crashes Finally, an article about the Hudson water landing with actual facts. Pretty good read too.