Last year was one of the safest for air travelers, but when there is something extraordinary, such as what happened the other day emergency landing of an aircraft at Heathrow airport, tourists are beginning to be afraid of airplanes.
; Many tourists believe that the correct choice of plane seats can save lives. Is this true?
Widely believed that in the rear compartment is more likely to survive: that the people sitting in the front, take on the entire stroke.
Nora Marshall, an expert of the National Commission on the safety of passenger transportation dollars, engaged in research of the plane crash more than 24 years. Nora argues that this view - no more than a myth.
In a plane crash in Iowa in 1989 affected people sitting in the front and rear. In 1988, in Dallas killed the passengers sitting in the tail. And in 1991, in Los Angeles, crashed in an accident the passengers in the bow of the aircraft.
Circumstances of each accident is different, so you can choose any part of the Interior: advance not to guess.
John Nance, a consultant and analyst for air travel, shared the view of Nora.
- When a plane crash people were selected as well from the nose and the tail of the aircraft. The only advantage - located near the emergency exit, but it is not fully confirmed.
Himself, John always takes the place which he will point, not worrying about where safer.
- I'm more concerned about how much time I spend at the airport, collect your luggage - said the expert.
fly - safely!
and Nancy, and Marshall, in one voice say that the aircraft - one of the safest modes of transport.
Here's another myth, downgraded by the experts: in a plane crash killed all!
actually survives the accident, many more people than dying! For example, in a plane crash in Toronto survived all 309 passengers aboard. Press screamed about the "miracle of Toronto, but experts are convinced that nothing miraculous is not here. Nora Marshall and her colleagues conducted the study, whose results become known: when the accident survives most of the passengers, even if the body aircraft sustained major damage and caught fire.
- Of course, in some cases likely survive virtually none. But if you talk about the failed landing or crash landing - we are much more advanced technologically than the situation 30 years ago. Widespread use of refractory materials, new technologies, expertise and stewards of the crew, their precise actions - the case in Toronto 20 years ago might carry the lives of all people on board. However, all passengers survived - and it's not a miracle, and regularity.
But all this talk is meaningless, if you count the number of accidents. All the channels are bypassed scenes with loud crashes, and yet the reporters did not bother counting and statistics. Millions of people take to the air each year, and fatalities - units.
Aircraft - the safest form of transport, experts say. On board an aircraft you are better protected than in our own bathroom.