HOW SAFE ARE PLANES TODAY?WORLD 24 SPECIAL REPORT
MH370: THE PLANE THAT VANISHED“We deeply regret that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board survived.” - Malaysian Airlines statement, 16 days after it disappeared
Theories included: alien abduction terrorist attack
pilot suicide among others
We now know that it went down in the
Southern Indian Ocean
AIR FRANCE 447 RIO TO PARIS 2009: ANOTHER PLANE THAT VANISHED
It took nearly TWO years for the plane’s black boxes to be found and
more than THREE years for a report to come out.
The report said the plane plummeted
38,000 ft in 3 minutes and 30
seconds, killing all 228 onboard.
EGYPTAIR 990 LA TO CAIRO VIA NEW YORK, 1999: PILOT SUICIDE OR PLANE MALFUNCTION?EGYPT ASKED THE US TO INVESTIGATE ON THEIR BEHALF. THE US FOUND THAT THE 1ST OFFICER DELIBERATELY CRASHED THE PLANE. EGYPT DID NOT ACCEPT THIS AND LAUNCHED THEIR OWN INVESTIGATION; IT PUT THE BLAME ON MECHANICAL FAILURE. WILL WE EVER KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON FLIGHT 990?
FATALITY RATE PER BILLION KM TRAVELLED 1995-2009
0
12.5
25
37.5
50
Airline Train Cycle Pedestrian
0.003
Source: CAA
1 FATALITY FOR EVERY 287 MILLION PASSENGERS CARRIED ON UK AIRLINES
CHANCES OF GETTING HIT BY LIGHTNING? 1 IN 19 MILLION
Source: CAA
SAFER THAN LIGHTNING… BUT IS FLYING SAFE ENOUGH?