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When did travel by sailing ship, and by aircraft become safe enough that casual folks, not explorers, not military, would use it to travel overseas for casual reasons, sightseeing, education, or business and not consider it too risky? And how safe were they in terms of percentage of deaths?

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When did travel by sailing ship, and by aircraft become safe enough that casual folks, not explorers, not military, would use it to travel overseas for casual reasons, sightseeing, education, or business and not consider it too risky? And how safe were they in terms of percentage of deaths?	2