So… That was quite a surprise, here’s the link to the statistics: Link
188 fatalities out of nearly 24k accidents don’t qualify as ‘most cases end deadly’. I don’t want to speculate as to how someone can misread a statistic that significantly while writing an article for a public service news site. But the damage of such false narratives is considerable.
The decades of brainwashing from those two industry allow the idea to run perpetually without much help needed.