A new app, called “Am I Going Down?”, calculates a plane’s chances of crashing in an effort to put nervous passengers at ease.
Created by London-based Vanilla Pixel, the app uses real flight statistics to analyze flight safety. If you’re flying on a Boeing 777 Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Los Angeles, there’s a one in 4,068,434 chance that your flight will go down during the route. And even the most eager flyers have little to fear. According to the app, if you take a flight every day for the next 11,146 years, you are unlikely to experience even one incident.
Developer Nic Johns spoke to MailOnline Travel about the app, explaining that it’s meant to calm the fears of those who are uneasy when it comes to air travel. More than 10 million routes have been assessed, using data from such sources as the Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives, the United States National Transportation Safety Board and the Civil Aviation Organisation. “For my analysis, I only include crashes where there was at least one passenger death - which is the relevant accident for those with a fear of flying,” Johns explained to CNN.“I then incorporate the volume of flights, weighted to the most recent, to provide the final "one in a million" statistics.”
The release of the app, however, did come at a rather awkward time - just days after AirAsia flight QZ8501 went down. “I have to admit that the timing of the release was unfortunate. I originally developed the app in February 2014, shortly before the first Air Malaysia crash,” he told MailOnline Travel.
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