Beating the Odds

US Airways Plane Crashes In Hudson River

No deaths or life threatening injuries!  Surviving a commercial plane crash makes you a member of a pretty exclusive club.  These folks are very very lucky.

Some perspective From PlaneCrashInfo

Survival rate of passengers on
aircraft involved in fatal accidents

carrying 10+ passengers

Decade % surviving
1930s 21
1940s 20
1950s 24
1960s 19
1970s 25
1980s 34
1990s 35
2000s 24

Survival rate of passengers on aircraft ditching during controlled flight 53%

Source: PlaneCrashInfo.com accident database

 

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