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飛機坐哪兒 最安全?
This Simple Decision Could Save Your Life In A Plane Crash
Suzy StrutnerLifestyle Editor, HuffPost
Air travel is the safest form of transportation in the country. In 2016, for the seventh year in a row, exactly zero people died from plane crashes on U.S.-certified scheduled airlines. Experts estimate your overall odds of perishing in a plane crash are well into the millions.
But curious travelers may still wonder about the safest place to be in the event of a very unlikely accident. The answer, it turns out, depends on the type of crash you’re in.
“Each incident or crash is unique,” said Alison Duquette, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. Impact could come from a nosedive, a water landing or a runway collision, for example. As a result, she said, “There is no safest seat.”
The National Transportation Safety Board doesn’t keep seat-related statistics and hasn’t done studies on the safest plane seats, a spokesman told HuffPost.
But two major media outlets have. In 2007, Popular Mechanics took matters into its own hands and analyzed NTSB data for every commercial plane crash in the U.S. since 1971 that had both survivors and fatalities and for which a detailed seating chart was accessible. Their conclusion?
Passengers near the tail of a plane were about 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the front.
Seats in the back of the plane, behind the trailing edge of the wing, had a 69 percent survival rate, while seats over the wing and in coach had a 56 percent survival rate. The front 15 percent of seats had a 49 percent survival rate, analysts found.
A second analysis in 2015, for which researchers at Time went through 35 years of FAA data, found similar results. The group narrowed their research to 17 accidents dating back to 1985 that had both fatalities and survivors and for which seating charts were available. Time found seats in the rear third of the aircraft had a lower fatality rate (32 percent) than seats in the overwing (39 percent) or front (38 percent) thirds of the plane.
Specifically, middle seats in the rear section specifically fared best by far, with a fatality rate of 28 percent.
The least safe were aisle seats in the middle third of the cabin, which had a fatality rate of 44 percent.
The Time researchers noted that the specific circumstances of a crash can render these averages irrelevant. But by and large, the back of the plane is the place to be.
Of course, there are ways to increase your chances of survival no matter where you’re seated. Pay attention to the safety briefing, know the number of rows to your nearest exit, and be prepared to brace yourself in the event of a very unlikely crash.
誰可以相信?
Americans don't trust anymore, and that's a big problem
by Salena Zito
SAND PATCH, Pa. – For more than 100 years trains have battled the steep grade from Washington, D.C., to all points west in the country as they cross the summit of the Allegheny Mountain range at this small hamlet just east of Meyersdale.
Last week as the Capitol Express was once again making its way from Chicago to its final destination in Washington D.C., a homemade sign, barely visible in the freshly fallen snow, reading "In God We Trust" caught the glare of the lights of the train.
It also caught the eye of a lone woman peering out the window of the glass domed sightseer car.
"Trust, something lost and rarely found in this country," she said out loud to no one in particular as she braced herself in the observation car as it chugged the precipitous hills and curves.
The woman's chance glimpse of a sign unknowingly answered the increasing problem facing our culture and society: Whom do we trust? The answer, it appears, is no one.
Well, that's not entirely true. We trust our military, and in fact that trust has grown, said Richard Edelman, CEO of one of the world's largest public relations consultancies. "Outside of that we are in such a crisis with trust that our faith and connection with the integral parts of our society is in collapse," he said.
Edelman's firm has been conducting the Trust Barometer survey for 17 years; last year the bottom dropped out and he is not quite sure how that tangible connection people have with institutions and expertise can be restored.
Only 43 percent of people said they trust the media; a whopping 5 percent drop from last year. Government came in even lower, at 41 percent; trust in military has grown, and trust in business is a bit stronger than the media and government, but not by much.
The question is why?
The answer to that is complicated, long and crosses all sections of society. It didn't happen overnight and was likely unavoidable to a certain extent.
First of all, our technological advances have placed society in a position that has destabilized our institutions' relationship with the people. In short, to win elections or to encourage you to purchase something, they are promising you either that good jobs are coming back or that you'll feel better when you use their product.
The truth is the jobs aren't coming back because that company that makes you feel good is creating automation that will eliminate a lot of the jobs of the people who work in your community by the next presidential election.
They might even be after yours as well.
Think about this: 20 percent of men in this country make their money by driving something that takes you from one place to another. In four years we will be well on our way to eliminating their jobs.
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