Want to live a long long time and get rejuvenation therapies? First avoid dying in an air accident in a less developed country.
HANOVER, MD, September 1, 2010 – Passengers who fly in Developing World countries face 13 times the risk of being killed in an air accident as passengers in the First World. The more economically advanced countries in the Developing World have better overall safety records than the others, but even their death risk per flight is seven times as high as that in First World countries.
These results come from research by Arnold Barnett, a prof at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Click thru and read the details if you plan to fly outside the most developed countries.
What is surprising: even countries like Brazil and Taiwan have only Developing World levels of safety, not the much better safety records of the most developed countries. So if you plan on flying to developing countries take First World airlines.
| Share | | Randall Parker, 2010 September 01 05:20 PM Fatality Risks |
Cars are more dangerous than planes. America has imported tens of millions of low-IQ drivers and the traffic accident statistics show the effects. Over a million Americans have been killed by "third world" drivers since 1960. A similar situation exists with nurse assistants in hospitals and nursing homes. Probably another million killed there although the health care industry does a great job hiding the numbers. As lifespans increase the cost of having negligent low-IQ neighbors will rise.
I would imagine that the safest 3rd world airlines are the ones that fly the newest aircraft and are privately held, rather than state owned carriers flying old planes. The worst would be state run carriers flying old Soviet made aircraft.
I've flown in many 3rd world countries, and an airline like TACA is actually pretty good - if you can overlook the fact that your travel companions are a bunch of mestizo peasants. In October 1988 I flew the same Pan Am 747 that was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie two months later. It was a piece of shit, an old rattletrap that made sounds like it was going to start coming apart at any moment. By contrast, later that week I flew a nearly new Lan Chile 767...and BTW, the stewardesses were smokin' hot.