86% of statistics are just made up on the spotAccording to Air Crash Investigation (fav. prog), Statistically you have better odds surviving a crash sitting at the back of the plane, so there
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Seat guru is fine although many airlines change the operational equipment at last minute so a good seat could become a bad seat due to a different configuration.
Back of the aircraft is noisier and the effects of turbulence is much greater. (that's why first class is up at the pointy end). The pilots seat isn't great and most find it hard to nap.
Seats near the bulkheads have screaming babies (but much better than sitting close to an inebriated adult).
Exit seats are freezing. The rearmost seats have no recline. Upstairs in business class is where they put families.
No seats are immune from excessive flatulence. Most planes don't crash.
Back of the aircraft is noisier and the effects of turbulence is much greater. (that's why first class is up at the pointy end). The pilots seat isn't great and most find it hard to nap.
Seats near the bulkheads have screaming babies (but much better than sitting close to an inebriated adult).
Exit seats are freezing. The rearmost seats have no recline. Upstairs in business class is where they put families.
No seats are immune from excessive flatulence. Most planes don't crash.
Eh?
The masks are for oxygen - not breathing apparatus for a fire, and, as you can't predict where a fire might occur, you cannot predict what door would be used.
I found out about them when travelling to the states on Delta about 5 years ago. They were accurate that time and this year when travelling to SA with SAA.
No idea what they're like for short-haul, but I suspect that maybe those aircraft are more likely to be changed regularly (seat arrangements/facilities etc) especially on Ryanair & AL.
I never fly Aer Lingus and very rarely Ryanair. The seating plans for Delta in the US, Northwest, Air France and KLM have all been wrong for me in the past 18 months and not due to change of aircraft. Often the issue is not listing the ER versions of the 767s etc
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The front of the plane is the safest...in the event of a crash landing the pilots will deliberately crash the plane in the way that gives them the greatest chance of survival. Therefore, the safest place to be is as close as possible to the pilots.
There are so many things wrong with your post that it's hard to know whether you're being serious or not!
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Per the other thread re: the Japanese airline apparently emptying your bladder is a good idea as the violent deceleration forces in a survivable plane crash can cause internal injuries if you are "full" .. also be sure to brace your feet against the retaining brackets of the seat infront when adopting the brace position .. as if you do survive the impact it's not much good if your legs are broken and you then can't get out.
But realistically on that cheery note I wouldn't spend much time worrying about it ... the risks are so low
- Apparently if you boarded a random flight somewhere in the world every day it would take something like 50,000 years before you were involved in a fatal crash.. and even then you'd have a better than 50/50 chance of surviving ..
-Also the old stat was that you're more likely to be kicked to death by a donkey than die in a plane crash ... And I don't know about you but donkeys are not something I spend much time worrying about!
Concentrate on something else instead where your choice of action is likely to have a much greater chance of affecting the outcome
But realistically on that cheery note I wouldn't spend much time worrying about it ... the risks are so low
- Apparently if you boarded a random flight somewhere in the world every day it would take something like 50,000 years before you were involved in a fatal crash.. and even then you'd have a better than 50/50 chance of surviving ..
-Also the old stat was that you're more likely to be kicked to death by a donkey than die in a plane crash ... And I don't know about you but donkeys are not something I spend much time worrying about!
Concentrate on something else instead where your choice of action is likely to have a much greater chance of affecting the outcome
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Such as?
If a plane is going to crash, who has the greatest chance of influencing the way in which it crashes? The pilots of course. So surely, given the chance, they'll try and ensure it crashes in the way that gives them the greatest chance of survival. Therefore, the safest place to be on a plane is as close to the pilots as possible, i.e. the front of the plane.
Both RyanAir and Aer Lingus have a limited number of variant aircraft (AL have more as they have A320-214, A321-211 on short haul and a few different A330 mostly on long haul whereas RA have pretty much so universally B737-800 with the same seat configuration). You are far more likely to encounter aircraft seat arrangment variations long-haul on AL that short-haul. Even if they substitute one aircraft for another you are likely to encounter the same configuration when flying short-haul.
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It the pilots were still in control, then it wouldn't be crashing.