In what we presume was an ill - judged crack cocaine at gallows humor , a Dutch airway tweeted on Wednesday the seats least likely to survive in the case of an airplane clang .   The tweet was put up from KLM ’s regional Twitter account based in India in response to a trivia interrogative , The Washington Postreports .

It was take down just 12   hours later and replaced with an excuse , saying the " post was based on a publicly uncommitted aviation fact , and is n’t a @KLM ruling . It was never our intention to hurt anyone ’s opinion . ”

The original tweet used information base on an investigation conducted byTIME magazinein 2015 – itself based on numbers recorded in the Federal Aviation Administration ’s CSRTG Aircraft Accident Database – which find oneself slight differences in survival rates depending on tail location . It also included a graphic of a undivided tail atop a white cloud with the subject matter “ tooshie at the back are the safest ! ”

While it is true the study reported dispirited fatality rate in the rear ( 32 per centum ) than either in the middle ( 39 pct ) or front ( 38 percent ) of the plane , the result were based on just 17 clangour between 1985 and 2000 . Fortunately , woodworking plane crashes are so rare ( and evenrarer today than in 2000 ) that there just is n’t very much data to take out from .

The tweet also neglected to mention this little nugget :   " We found that endurance was random in several chance event – those who perished were scattered irregularly between survivor , " Emily Barone wrote forTIME magazine publisher .   " It ’s for this rationality that the FAA and other air hose safety expert say there is no safe seat on the plane . "

So , there ’s no penury to panic next time you are   issued seat turn 20D. Indeed ,   there ’s some the true to the idea that you ’re more likely to conk out on the way to the drome than on the escape itself .   While   the betting odds of your planing machine being involved in an accident is justone in 1.2 millionand   the betting odds of actually   dyingin a collapse are an even tinier atone in 11 million , your odds of dying in a auto chance event areone in 5,000 .

But in the US , at least , you are much more likely to die from a center attack than from any transport - related harm . After all , fondness disease was responsible for23.5 percentdeaths in 2017 .