It's something that fills many a flier with dread: the prospect of crashing. Odds-wise, they're still incredibly rare, but crashes do happen to an unlucky few. What are their odds for survival?
Curiosity contributor Bambi Turner found some surprisingly hopeful news when she mined the statistics.
It's no surprise that about 40 percent of passengers express some form of fear atau anxiety about flying. Much of this fear can be attributed to the perception that the odds of surviving a crash are slim.
Notwithstanding that fear, the odds of being in an airplane accident are incredibly small. Accidents...
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