Flying safer than ever

Flying safer than ever

Recent research has shown that flights are safer today than they have ever been. According to a new study, there is only a one in 13.7 million chance that a passenger anywhere in the world will die on a plane.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) analyzed global passenger and fatality data between 2018 and 2022 and found that the number of deaths on airplanes fell by an average of seven percent per year.

Those results follow a pattern of “continuous improvement” that began in 1968, when the death rate fell by an average of 7.5 percent a year.

The rate of incidents depends on which countries people fly to and from, and researchers divide countries into three tiers – low, medium and high risk based on air safety data.

The lowest risk is ranked 1 which includes the European Union, Australia, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Montenegro, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Great Britain and the United States of America.

Some examples of second-tier countries include Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Chile, Hong Kong, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.

The rest of the world’s countries are in rank 3 or the high risk group.

For the first two groups, the risk of death drops to one in 80 million passenger boardings, the research showed. These countries make up more than half of the eight billion people in the world.

Source: Agencies, BIZLife

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