If you don't want to die in a plane crash, your chances are pretty good. The chance of being in deadly plane crash is one in 45 million following a year that saw the lowest number of commercial airline crashed in over 50 years.
The plane crash figures for 2012 were the lowest they've been since 1945. According to the Aviation Safety Network, there were only 23 accidents and 475 deaths in America in 2012, the Daily Mail reports.
Flying has become very safe and researchers say that a traveler could fly every day for 123,000 years before they would be involved in a fatal plane crash.
There has not been one fatal plane crash in America for four years, which is pretty good considering there are 10 million flights a year.
The last fatal plane crash in America occurred on February 9, 2009 in Buffalo, New York when the plane got into an accident while trying to land in snowy conditions. The cause was determined to be pilot error as the pilot performed the wrong move after ice had formed on the wing.
A major airline has not had a crash in America since 2001 when an American Airlines flight crashed after takeoff in New York.
Air travel has become safer as there was an improvement in safety standards and there are more reliable planes and engines. There is also advanced navigation and warning technology which has helped reduce the number of midair collisions and crashes into mountains when there is poor visibility.
Airlines and plane producers are working together to develop ways to prevent accidents.
Improved seat designs have also made it more possible for passengers to survive a crash.
"The lessons of accidents used to be written in blood, where you have to have an accident, and you had to kill people to change procedures of policy, or training," said Deborah Hersmann, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
"That's not the case anymore. We have a much more proactive approach to safety."
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