>> There's a database of over 500 known airplane wrecks in the territory.
Well, this was unexpected. On the one hand, Yukon is larger than the surface of Germany. On the other hand, were there 500 plane crashes in Germany, excluding wars? Turns out far from it: almost 10x less with 62 fatal crashes since 1945: https://www.statista.com/statistics/262867/fatal-civil-airli...
Now maybe not all the 500 plane wrecks were fatal but still that's a disturbing likelihood of a crash. With Germany having some 100x-1000x more intense traffic than Yukon, that's easy 1000-10'000x times more likely to crash in the Canadian wilderness. I think I'll pass visiting that in a plane :)
The crash statistic you got is only counting airliners though, I’m pretty sure the 500 crashes in the Yukon would not appear there, because they aren’t all civilian airliners. The statistic only has 191 for Canada.
Well, this was unexpected. On the one hand, Yukon is larger than the surface of Germany. On the other hand, were there 500 plane crashes in Germany, excluding wars? Turns out far from it: almost 10x less with 62 fatal crashes since 1945: https://www.statista.com/statistics/262867/fatal-civil-airli...
Now maybe not all the 500 plane wrecks were fatal but still that's a disturbing likelihood of a crash. With Germany having some 100x-1000x more intense traffic than Yukon, that's easy 1000-10'000x times more likely to crash in the Canadian wilderness. I think I'll pass visiting that in a plane :)