When traveling by plane, it will be useful to ponder the question, what is the safest place in the transport.
Over the past 40 years there has been no more than two dozen large-scale air crashes with fatalities. Fortunately, such incidents - a rarity. Basically, accidents occur during landing and takeoff, and then survival is largely dependent on how safe seat on the plane has been selected.
Regarding this issue, it was a lot of opinions, and for a long time it was thought that the safest places are those which are in front of the aircraft. But as to test, and test this theory is very expensive for a long time, these were the safest place.
The safest place in the aircraft / istockphoto.com
However, studies have been conducted, which showed that the probability of survival in an accident in the front rows of passengers is only 49%. Tourists, who are sitting in the middle of the cabin increase their chances of survival in an accident up to 56%. Places, which are located in the tail, turned out to be the safest - 69%. The results were obtained with the calculations and statistics. In the event of an emergency landing, the first blow is always on the nose and the back part of it comes already considerably depreciated.
Booking seats on the plane, we should not lose sight of this fact. However, the safety of passengers is also largely dependent on how well they listen carefully instructed how to act in case of emergency.
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