Whom to blame for airplane crashes and how the Biman Bangladesh airlines crashed in Dhaka, Singapore & Sylhet
According to transportation safety boards and air crash investigation teams, airplane accidents occur at a rate of one per 1.2 million flights. It means probability of a regular person facing a crisis on air is very less, almost none in fact . Probability of dying is even slighter; 1 in 11 million. The odds of being in a car accident are around 1 in 12,000 in a developed country and around 1 in 2,000 in a developing country like Bangladesh. So, air traveling in reality is a safe medium. But due to wide media coverage on air crashes, people tend to think otherwise. Then again, most people fear air traveling because a sense of ‘helplessness’ digs in mind of most passengers when things go wrong on board. Surprising as it may sound, one can make the traveling a little safer just by opting to sit on the back of an airplane. It has been proved that passengers sitting at the back of a flight have more possibilities of survival compared to passengers sitting in front of the airp...