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Find Out the Safest Seats in Aircraft During an Emergency!
The researchers say that their study suggests that between two and fiver rows from the exit, passengers still have a better than even chance of escaping in a fire but "the difference between surviving and perishing is greatly reduced".
According to them, the most dangerous seats are those six or more rows from an exit.
"Here, the chances of perishing far outweigh those of surviving," Times Online quoted the researchers as saying.
While passengers sitting towards the front of the aircraft had a 65 per cent chance of escaping a fire, those at the rear had the survival rate of 53 per cent.
The study also revealed that the survival rate in aisle seats was 64 per cent, compared with 58 per cent for other passengers.
The researchers also analysed the disaster at Manchester airport in 1985, when 55 people died on a British Airtours Boeing 737 after it caught fire, as part of their study.
They discovered that the majority of people who died were sitting well away from a usable exit.
The study also revealed that the passengers who died were on average sitting more than twice as far away from a usable exit as those who survived, and that most of the people killed by toxi fumes were sitting 15 rows from the nearest usable exit.
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