Statistically, you’re more likely to choke and asphyxiate on your dinner than to die in a plane crash.

That doesn’t make a defective flight system a greater or lesser problem. It’s irrelevant.

Aggregate data is tough to interpret anyway for a cross country trip. Traffic deaths per 100M miles vary from 1.83 (South Carolina) to 0.54 (Massachusetts). Also, motor vehicle aggregate numbers include all trips — if you compare common carriers, busses and rail are dramatically safer than private cars.