Friday, July 20, 2007

News you can use when you book an airline ticket

The good people over at Consumerist have highlighted a great item, on the intersection of data and anecdote. It's a study from Popular Mechanics and confirms what most flyers knew already: It's safer in the back.

Where detailed seating charts were available, we also calculated survival rates for various parts of the passenger cabin. Again, the trend was clear: The rear cabin (seats located behind the trailing edge of the wing) had the highest average survival rate at 69 percent. The overwing section had a 56 percent survival rate, as did the coach section ahead of the wing. First/business-class sections (or in all-coach planes, the front 15 percent) had an average survival rate of just 49 percent.




Consumerist post here.


Popular Mechanics article here

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