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Have you ever thought about which seat will protect you the most in an emergency? probably not. Most people book seats for comfort reasons, such as a seat with legroom or one with easy access to the bathroom. Quite a few passengers may book their seat as close as possible to the front of the plane so they can get off faster.
We rarely book a flight hoping to get one of the middle seats in the last row. Well, guess what? These seats are statistically the safest on the plane.
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According to the US National Safety Council’s analysis of census data, the chance of dying in a plane is about 1 in 205,552, compared to 1 in 102 in a car. Even so, we pay little attention to fatal car accidents, but when we hear about a plane crash in Nepal This is the main story in all the news releases.
It is worth remembering that accidents by their very nature do not conform to standards. In the 1989 crash of United Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa, 184 of the 269 people on board survived the accident. Most of the survivors sat behind the first class, towards the front of the plane.
However, a TIME investigation that looked at 35 years of plane crash data found that the middle back seats of an airplane had the lowest fatality rate: 28 percent, compared to 44 percent in the middle aisle seats.
This also makes logical sense. Sitting near an exit row will always give you the fastest exit in an emergency, provided there is no fire on that side. But the wings of the plane store fuel, so this rules out the middle exit rows as the safest row option.
However, being closer to the front means you’ll get hit before those behind, leaving us with the last exit row. As for why the middle seats are safer than the window or aisle seats, that is, as you might expect, because of the buffer it provides for people on either side.
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