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Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash
Ant writes "Popular Mechanics shares a short article on an exclusive look at 36 years' worth of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports and seating charts to determine the best way to live through a disaster in the sky. Move to the back of the Airbus."
These days most people in first class are very polite fliers for rather than being their by virtue of mad cash they are mostly there on frequent flier upgrades so they have a pretty good understanding of what bugs people about flying. Of course it never hurts that they usually had the champane over the oj when they sat down.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
Fly in a Boeing airplane.
an ill wind that blows no good
So, they are working off of a sample size of twenty??? Not sure if I would draw too many conclusions from this dataset.
Exactly - and one of those twenty is Delta Air Lines flight 191 - a freak accident in which the back of the aircraft separated and stopped, while the front of the airplane crashed into two four-million gallon water tanks, blew up, and killed everyone in it.
That's enough to skew your data right there. But I'm sure we'll hear all the funny quotes about "backing into mountains" anyway. The back of the airplane is barely safer - if you're in a crash that kills people, it's likely that the vast majority of the people on the airplane will die.