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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."
Are you kidding?
The damn tails fall off of Airbus planes.
Then they blame the pilot for being hard on the rudder. And some worthless US government functionary leans over forwards to appear fair, and goes along with blaming the dead pilot.
The pilot can dance a jig on the rudder pedals and the damn rudder should not fall off!
I have never been on a Airbus, and will try hard never to be on an Airbus.
They're cheap glued-together crap. Obviously the result of committees representing *multiple* socialist governments. Perhaps the second-worst way to design a passenger plane. The worst is a committee of a single big communist government.
Sure, the '37 had some rudder reversal issues a decade ago, but they did not come unglued during the excursions. Shareholders have limited patience, unlike governments.
And you'll not smear me with "xenophobia" or whatever the current socialist excuse for not thinking is. I'd get on a Japanese jumbo with no worries whatsoever, if they made any.
Here's hoping that Japan starts building heavy bombers and their civilian spin-off passenger liners. *Clink!*
Until then,
It's Boeing or I ain't going.