Rear seats, please
NZPA-AFP Dallas Air travellers’ demand for rear seats in airliners has shot up in Dallas since 29 of 30 survivors of a crashed Delta Air Lines TriStar were said to be in rear seats, travel agencies report. The four survivors of the jumbo jet crash in Japan, which killed 520 people, also were seated in the back of the Japan Air Lines plane.
One agency said that 35 per cent to 50 per cent more clients were requesting tailend seats since the Delta crash at Dallas airport, which killed 134 people, on August 3. Other agencies reported increases of 10 per cent to 20 per cent in rear seat choices. “But really, one area of a jet’s cabin is no surer than another,” said a Dallas
aeronautics engineer. “The honest truth is that in a jet air crash there is no single safest spot, the reason being that each accident is different and they all involve extraordinary circumstances.” No statistics on the location of survivors in crashed planes were available from the United States Federal Aviation Administration.
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