Your chances of dying in a plane crash?
It depends on where you fly
September 6, 2010 - 10:56AM
Flying in the developing world is 13 times more dangerous than flying in first world countries, according to a new study.
Arnold Barnett, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and a researcher on aviation safety, calculated that the odds of dying on a scheduled flight in first world countries such as Canada and Japan are one in 14 million.
But he found that flying in emerging nations such as India and Brazil leads to a one in 2 million chance of death per flight. Lesser developed countries, such as many found in Africa and in Latin America, were found to have a crash rate of one in 800,000.
Barnett, who based his findings on air safety data, said Nigeria had an especially poor safety record.
But the real question is whether this quoted statistic is built upon only 'pilot facts' or does the data include crappy incompetent two-bit CEO's, senior management, mid-level management, lower-level management, management wannabe's, management footstools.......