Air crash analysis shows which seats are safer

Although air travel is one of the safest ways to get from one point to another, it is a fact that air crashes, when they happen, usually have a fatal outcome for almost all crew members.

However, in some cases it is possible that not all people will die when a tragedy strikes, and if you have ever wondered which seats are the safest on an aircraft, be aware that this actually depends on the type of accident that can happen. .

The aircraft could collide in water or on a runway, for example, which is why Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Alison Duquette said in a statement published in the Huffington Post that there is no safer seat than the other.

As a matter of safety, informal surveys by unofficial institutions have come to the conclusion that there is indeed a less dangerous place for the passenger who eventually suffers an air crash. For this, data were analyzed from every commercial plane crash that has happened in the US since 1971 and has had survivors.

The truth is that passengers who sit near the tail of the plane are much more likely to survive an accident than passengers who are later in the aircraft.

Basically, those who sit in the bottom of the aircraft have a 60% chance of survival. This number drops to 56% when sitting in the middle of the aircraft and to 49% when in the front.

Similar results were also found in an analysis made in 2015. In this case, data from 17 accidents that occurred from 1985 and that also had survivors were evaluated. The results showed that the tail part of the plane had a lower mortality rate of 32%, and a specific region of the back had an even lower rate of 28%.

Mortality increased in the middle of the aircraft, at 39% and reached 38% of the front of the aircraft. In this 2015 survey, the researchers concluded that the causes of accidents can change these statistics, but stated that overall sitting in the back of the aircraft is even safer.

It's always worth remembering that your chances of survival increase if you follow the instructions given by the flight attendants before the flight - they don't say anything about that, no, huh!