A crash is considered “survivable” by the National Transportation Safety Board if the forces transmitted to passengers don’t ...

[Slate] 2. The safest seats are (usually) at the back of the plane The rear seats of a commercial jetliner are annoying — cramped, near the lavatory, and you're the last one off the plane.

Flying is the safest way to travel, but it may also be the most stressful. Here's how to ease some of that stress by avoiding ...

However, no single “magic safest seat” actually exists, an engineering professional asserted. When assessing the probability of surviving a plane crash, investigators look at five things ...

who has conducted landmark studies on plane crash evacuations, warns, “There is no magic safest seat.” However Galea, and others, in the CNN report say that there’s a difference between the seat that ...

they found that the back seats of the aircraft have the lowest death rate, 32%, as compared to 38% in the front third and 39% in the middle third. Meanwhile, aviation safety experts have different ...