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    This document discusses different metrics for measuring the safety of various modes of transportation including air travel, cars, buses, and trains. It notes that while air travel is the safest when measured by passenger-distance, buses have the lowest fatality rate per passenger transported. Additionally, per billion kilometers traveled trains have accident rates 12 times higher than air travel, while car rates are 62 times higher, and buses have the lowest rate of any mode of transportation per billion journeys. The document also discusses some aviation safety systems and crash survival rates.

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    Avionics Turbine Engines Landing Gear: Popular Mechanics

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    This document discusses different metrics for measuring the safety of various modes of transportation including air travel, cars, buses, and trains. It notes that while air travel is the safest when measured by passenger-distance, buses have the lowest fatality rate per passenger transported. Additionally, per billion kilometers traveled trains have accident rates 12 times higher than air travel, while car rates are 62 times higher, and buses have the lowest rate of any mode of transportation per billion journeys. The document also discusses some aviation safety systems and crash survival rates.

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    This document discusses different metrics for measuring the safety of various modes of transportation including air travel, cars, buses, and trains. It notes that while air travel is the safest when measured by passenger-distance, buses have the lowest fatality rate per passenger transported. Additionally, per billion kilometers traveled trains have accident rates 12 times higher than air travel, while car rates are 62 times higher, and buses have the lowest rate of any mode of transportation per billion journeys. The document also discusses some aviation safety systems and crash survival rates.

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    Avionics Turbine Engines Landing Gear: Popular Mechanics

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    This document discusses different metrics for measuring the safety of various modes of transportation including air travel, cars, buses, and trains. It notes that while air travel is the safest when measured by passenger-distance, buses have the lowest fatality rate per passenger transported. Additionally, per billion kilometers traveled trains have accident rates 12 times higher than air travel, while car rates are 62 times higher, and buses have the lowest rate of any mode of transportation per billion journeys. The document also discusses some aviation safety systems and crash survival rates.

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    Evacuation slides aid rapid passenger exit from an aircraft in an emergency

    situation.[36]

    Advanced avionics Computerized auto-recovery and alert systems.[37]

    Turbine engines durability and failure containment improvements.[38]

    Landing gear that can be lowered even after loss of power and hydraulics.[39]

    Measured on a passenger-distance calculation, air travel is the safest form of transportation


    available: Figures mentioned are the ones shared by the air industry when quoting air safety
    statistics. A typical statement, e.g., by the BBC: "UK airline operations are among the safest
    anywhere. When compared to all other modes of transport, on a "fatality per mile basis", air
    transport is the safest six times safer than traveling by car; twice as safe as rail."[40]
    However, when measured by fatalities per person transported, buses are the safest form of
    transportation. The number of air travel fatalities per person is surpassed only by bicycles
    and motorcycles. This statistic is used by the insurance industry when calculating insurance
    rates for air travel.[41]
    Per every billion kilometers traveled, trains have a fatality rate 12 times over air travel; by
    comparison, fatality rates for automobiles are 62 times greater than air travel. By contrast,
    for every billion journeys, buses are the safest form of transportation. By the last measure,
    air transportation is three times more dangerous than car transportation, and almost 30
    times more dangerous than bus.[42]

    After the crash of Gol Transportes Areos Flight 1907, Brazilian Air Forcepersonnel recover the flight data
    recorder of the flight.

    A 2007 study by Popular Mechanics found passengers sitting at the back of a plane are 40%
    more likely to survive a crash than those sitting in the front. Although this article quotes
    Boeing, the FAA and a website on aircraft safety, all claim there is no "safest" seat. The
    article studied 20 crashes, not taking into account the developments in safety after those
    accidents.[43] However, a flight data recorder is usually mounted in the
    aircraft's empennage (tail section), where it is more likely to survive a severe crash.
    Over 95% of people in U.S. plane crashes, between 1983 and 2000, survived.[44]

    ASRS[edit]
    Main article: Aviation Safety Reporting System
    The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) collects voluntarily submitted aviation safety
    incident/situation reports from pilots, controllers and others. The ASRS uses reports to
    identify system deficiencies, issue alert messages, and produce two
    publication, CALLBACK, andASRS Directline. The collected information is m

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