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Milo Boyd & Lucy Farrell

Safest plane seats to book for surviving crash revealed in new data

While most people have no issues with travelling on a plane, others are terrified at the thought of just stepping onto an aircraft, filling with dread as the cabin door closes behind them.

The chances of being in a plane crash are low, but new analysis has unveiled the safest seat on an aircraft if such an incident were to occur. The findings, published in Time Magazine found that seats in the back third of planes had the lowest fatality rates, followed by the middle third and then the front third.

Travel experts who examined a study of aircraft accidents in the last 35 years from 1985 to 2000 found the middle seats in the back of large aircrafts historically have the highest survival rates, the Mirror reports.

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