While most people have no issues with travelling on a plane, others are terrified at the thought of just stepping onto an aircraft, filling with dread as the cabin door closes behind them.
The chances of being in a plane crash are low, but new analysis has unveiled the safest seat on an aircraft if such an incident were to occur. The findings, published in Time Magazine found that seats in the back third of planes had the lowest fatality rates, followed by the middle third and then the front third.
Travel experts who examined a study of aircraft accidents in the last 35 years from 1985 to 2000 found the middle seats in the back of large aircrafts historically have the highest survival rates, the Mirror reports.
A Brit's life odds of dying in a plane crash are just one in 8,000 - a small figure compared to the odds of dying in a car in the UK - around one in 229. If those figures aren't enough to calm your nerves, flying coach Paul Tizzard recommends breaking down the likely steps of a flight before you get on the plane, to help those with a fear regain power.
He said: "A flight checklist of every step of the flight from check-in to the other end, people find that helpful because it's very logical. Knowledge is power is the cliche. You can tick off the sounds that can be enough to get somebody to do a flight."
Paul also suggests learning breathing techniques, detailed in episode 44 of his podcast titled "LoveFly", that can help to steady the nerves.
Understandably, survivors sitting near exits on a plane are more likely to escape alive, according to a separate 2008 study from the University of Greenwich.
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