As I’ve said before, I am a jittery air traveler at best. Even before 9/11 and the threat of homicidal Muslims, I found time in the pressurized aluminum sausage harrowing. Now comes advice from an exclusive study of airline accident data, by Popular Mechanics magazine:
"Passengers near the tail of a plane are about 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows up front."
This makes sense, if you remember the old black joke: the pilots are always the first people at the scene of the crash. Usually the first dead people. So it figures First Class wouldn’t be much safer.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 