Where is the safest place to sit on an airplane?
The short answer is there is no safest seat. In an aircraft accident where the plane is seriously damaged or one or more occupants are injured or killed, the severity of the injuries depends on many factors, some of which may not be apparent until an accident occurs. For example, there have been many accidents involving heavy smoke or fire where survival depended on the ability of the passengers to not panic and to quickly remove themselves and others from the aircraft after landing. Dr. Todd Curtis of AirSafe.com answered the question about the safest seat on an airplane more fully in an article at AirSafeNews.com • Which is the safest airline to fly? Clearly there are some major airlines such as Southwest of the USA which have not had a passenger die in an accident and others such as United Airlines and Korean Air which have had several fatal events. Those facts don’t make one airline automatically safer than the other although it does affect the public’s perception of safety. The mo
