What's The Safest Seat On An Airplane?

Re:What's The Safest Seat On An Airplane? by staunch on Sunday July 13, 2008 @10:23PM (#245447)

> Unlike air safety, individual road safety can be increased by any individual...

I think that's a big part of the reason. I know I'd feel a lot safer (if I was qualified) flying an airplane than having someone else do it. Having a large measure of control over a potentially dangerous situation is reassuring.

The other thing is that airplane crashes are very often catastrophic. A whole lot more people survive car accidents than die in them.

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Re:What's The Safest Seat On An Airplane? by DenisM on Monday July 14, 2008 @03:19AM (#245571)

  The other thing is that airplane crashes are very often
  catastrophic. A whole lot more people survive car
  accidents than die in them.

I'm speechless. You think that's something positive? Another way to phrase the same thing: not only cars kill a lot more people than planes, they also multilate and injure even more. Only 4 people died last year in air accident in US (http://www.planecrashinfo.com/2007/2007.htm), which makes it 10,000 more likely to die in a car accident.

You're right in your other point - it seems people don't mind dying so long as they have illusion they could have prevented it. Only when people feel powerless they become afraid.

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