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The donkey versus airplane myth probably started in a 1987 London Times article, when an airline safety expert off-handedly -- and most likely hyperbolically -- suggested that more people were probably kicked to death by donkeys than killed in airplane crashes.
Since then, this "fact" has been repeated again and again on the Internet, giving donkeys a bad name, something the American Donkey and Mule Society (ADMS) finds very troubling. The ADMS only has a record of one donkey-related fatality in its archives, and claim that the oft-repeated donkey story is donkey doo-doo.
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/donkey.asp
Do Donkeys Kill More People Than Die in Airplane Accidents ?
by Brenda N, & exotics pets
June 22, 2014
In 1987 the London Times reported that Donkeys kill more people
per year than die in airplane crashes.
The report was made to help calm people's fears of flying.
It was also totally fabricated.
Perhaps over time Donkeys have killed more people than have
died in plane crashes, however on a yearly basis this little fact is
probably wrong.
Of course there are no world statistics for how many people are
killed annually by Donkeys, so we cannot really be sure, but it is
highly unlikely that they kill more people than die in plane crashes.
Donkeys are often used as beasts of burden but they can kick and
an angry donkey could certainly kill a person, but typically donkeys
are kept submissive and people usually try to avoid being in a
position where they would get kicked.
Certainly Donkeys can, and do, injure people every year; some
people use Donkeys to guard their property...
They must not be all bad. They are not allowed to work if the temperature gets above the mid ninety s.