Front rows, go first, including go down first!

When you book for a seat on the plane, have you ever think of "is there any safest seat"? Well, obviously no one is thinking about a plane crash, before, during or after booking his/her ticket. But seriously, if you knew certain seats were "safer" than the other, would you book those seats, even paying for a higher fee?

From time to time we read about news of plane crash, sometime everyone aboard died, sometime there are survivors. Is there any safest seat on a plane? According to statements from Boeing or the FAA, there's no safest seat. But in an article that I read from Popular Mechanics website, it says "actually there is -- it's safer in the back." According to the article, passengers near the tail of a plane are about 40% more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows up front.

In 11 of the 20 crashes (all in the US) they studied, rear passengers clearly fared better, only 5 incidents favored those in the front. So, who sits in the front rows? Well, first class and business class people right? They usually board and disembark first, so if this report was right, then in the case of a plane crash, yes, they will go down first too!

Regardless what the "truth" is, I hope everyone has a safest seat and safest-flight. No crash! full story

前座的，「先走啦」！

我們不時看到空難的報道，有時全機人員喪生，有時則有一些生還者，當然如果都能像紐約那宗「哈德森河的奇蹟」最好啦，大家都有驚無險的逃過鬼門關。

話說回頭，飛機裡有沒有那些座位比較安全？根據波音公司、美國航管局等的說法，每個位子都是一樣安全的，沒有那個比另外一個較安全。然而，我在網上看到的一篇報道卻表示，根據他們就美國境內20宗空難研究和統計顯示，有11宗證明後座者的生還率比較高，只有5宗讓前座者「佔到上風」。

一般來說，誰是前座者？不好意思，正是那些付得起高昂機票的頭等及商務艙乘客，不管上下飛機，他們都是優先行先。如果這個道理是真的話，那麼發生空難時，他們也是「優先行先」跟大家說拜拜了。

當然，我們不論是購票或者是飛行前，都不會去想空難的事，畢竟這個發生的機率還是非常低的。目前航空公司也沒有就「後座」徵收較高的費用，所以這樣的訊息可能「看一看就好」，所謂生死命中註定，還是好好把握自己的人生更實際。希望大家都有安全的旅程，一路平安！