I don't think anybody would consider CAI safe these days
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I disagree, and when someone with common sense looks at the numbers, I think they would disagree as well.
I don't know why I compiled this, because I thought most travel enthusiasts, and especially people on DDF, were aware of this, but for the people who aren't, here you go:
As far as I can tell from researching online, the last time someone was killed from a flight departing Cairo, was in 2002 when a flight crash landed in Tunisia due to heavy fog. As far as the incident this month; say it was the fault of Cairo airport and say that an incident like that is due to happen monthly, that would still account for less then 8 deaths per 100k people departing Cairo Airport per year. By comparison, in 2014 in the US, 15 different causes of death occurred more frequently than that. A few include: heart disease at #1 with 193 deaths per 100k, accidents at #4 with 43 deaths per 100k, and suicide at #11 with 13 deaths per 100k.
When taking those numbers into account, it would seem that the risk of transiting Cairo airport by air, (and probably just about any airport for that matter,) is way less than the risk of getting killed in an accident in our daily lives, or dying young from heart desease from being unhealthy.