The safest place to sit on a plane is an aisle seat close to the emergency exit row, a study of 105 accidents and accounts of 2,000 survivors has found.The seats with the best survival rate were in the exit row and the rows in front or behind, says the study carried out by Greenwich University for the Civil Aviation Authority.
In the seats between two and five rows, passengers still had a better than even chance of escaping in a fire but ''the difference between surviving and perishing is greatly reduced''. The most dangerous seats are those six or more rows from an exit, in which ''the chances of perishing far outweigh those of surviving''.
| They paid for this study? I could have told them the answer for free. |