We all have our preferred seat on an airplane. Some prefer a seat because of comfort, convenience, extra room, etc. Even though no one can agree on which seat it the best, there is one seat on the plane I think we can all agree is the worst: the middle seat in the back of the plane.
BUT. That seat is statistically the safest seat.
TIME investigated the safest place on a plane based on 35 years of aircraft accidents. They looked through reports and found that
Source: Study Finds
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