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The Safest Seat on an Airplane Is...
- songrabbit 15y agoI'm not sure how informative this is... Percent of what?
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- ummmsketch 15y agoIt's a survival rate chart, full article here: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/safety/4219452 http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/safety/4... Based on 20 plane crashes in the United States.
- jamesbkel 15y agoIt seems silly to be worried about this sort of thing given to low likelihood of a crash in the first place. Most measures of flight risk are in "flight hours", so it's hard to make a direct single-flight measure. But most of the sources I was able to find quickly ranged from about 1/1MM to 1/10MM, largely depending on the airlines and countries out of which they are operating. I'll use 1/5MM for my purposes (if anyone has a better idea, pipe in). So, if one were to look at the survival rates in the chart as "per flight" versus "per crash", it would be. First Class: 49% * (1/5MM) = .0000098% Ahead of Wing: 56% * (1/5MM) = .0000112% Over Wing: 56% * (1/5MM) = .0000112% Rear: 69% * (1/5MM) = .0000138% [edit: cleaned up for readability]
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoUm, thats a pretty low chance of survival. In my experience, its closer to 0.999991 or so?
- jamesbkel 15y agoHa, thanks for the correction. Was too caught up in the numbers :p
- jamesbkel 15y agoCorrection: as JoeAltmaier pointed out, I should have written something along the lines of "failure rate" or "hazard rate". Clearly a "survival rate" like that would make no sense.
- meric 15y ago>> First Class: 49% * (1/5MM) = .0000098% >> Rear: 69% * (1/5MM) = .0000138% Thanks for putting the per-flight risk numbers here, but these two numbers there still feel odd.