Jump-seats & Accidents
It seems to me that many of the accident reports I have read have a jump seat rider. So many in fact that I wonder if anyone has crunched the numbers and seen what the ratio is.
In my experience, we have someone in the jump-seat maybe 5% of the time yet it seems like a much higher % than that for the accident aircraft.
It would be a fairly simple exercise to work out a ratio from say 1980 until now. Can someone tell me if this has been done? If you can't, can you name an accident in which there was a jump-seater post 1980 so I can start gathering my own info.
Cheers guys,
Framer