HOW SAFE ARE PLANES TODAY?WORLD 24 SPECIAL REPORT

MH370: THE PLANE THAT VANISHED“We deeply regret that we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board survived.” - Malaysian Airlines statement, 16 days after it disappeared

Theories included: alien abduction terrorist attack

pilot suicide among others

We now know that it went down in the

Southern Indian Ocean

AIR FRANCE 447 RIO TO PARIS 2009: ANOTHER PLANE THAT VANISHED

It took nearly TWO years for the plane’s black boxes to be found and

more than THREE years for a report to come out.

The report said the plane plummeted

38,000 ft in 3 minutes and 30

seconds, killing all 228 onboard.

EGYPTAIR 990 LA TO CAIRO VIA NEW YORK, 1999: PILOT SUICIDE OR PLANE MALFUNCTION?EGYPT ASKED THE US TO INVESTIGATE ON THEIR BEHALF. THE US FOUND THAT THE 1ST OFFICER DELIBERATELY CRASHED THE PLANE. EGYPT DID NOT ACCEPT THIS AND LAUNCHED THEIR OWN INVESTIGATION; IT PUT THE BLAME ON MECHANICAL FAILURE. WILL WE EVER KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON FLIGHT 990?

FATALITY RATE PER BILLION KM TRAVELLED 1995-2009

0

12.5

25

37.5

50

Airline Train Cycle Pedestrian

0.003

Source: CAA

1 FATALITY FOR EVERY 287 MILLION PASSENGERS CARRIED ON UK AIRLINES

CHANCES OF GETTING HIT BY LIGHTNING? 1 IN 19 MILLION

Source: CAA

SAFER THAN LIGHTNING… BUT IS FLYING SAFE ENOUGH?