What is the safest seat on an airplane?
Well, the Boeing Corp.'s web site says: "One seat is as safe as the other."
A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman said, "It's an age old question. There's just no way to say."
And, airsafe.com claims "there is no safest seat."
But, Popular Mechanics magazine has found that all of those assurances by major industry players just aren't true. Could it be that the reason the establishment doesn't want to tell you where the safest seat on an airplane occupies is because it's the cheap seats?
That's right, if there are fatalities in an airplane crash, the people in first class at the front of the plane have less than a 50 percent survival rate. Those in the rear cabin (approximately back quarter) of the plane survive at 69 percent.
David Norland reported that the Popular Mechanics study showed that in 11 of the last 20 fatal crashes in the United States, "passengers near the tail of a plane are about 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows up front." The study included all jet flights with fatalities in the U.S. since 1971.
They found that in 11 of the 20 crashes, back passengers fared better while in just 5 in 20 did the first class folks come out ahead.
So, when you're looking for the safest seat on an airplane, head toward the back. Your statistical odds of survival are much higher there.
But also keep in mind that there hasn't been a fatal jet crash in the United States since 9/11.
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