FLIGHTS → BA 249

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BA 249 will land safely.

DEATH RISK

1 / 13.7M

per boarding, worldwide

PILOTS ABOARD

both type-rated, always

WING LOAD TEST

150%

of the worst it will meet

What is true of every flight like this one

Two qualified pilots are flying it, and neither got there quickly.

A US airline transport pilot certificate requires at least 1,500 hours of flight time before you may sit in either seat.

14 CFR § 61.159

The wings were bent to breaking point before the type was ever allowed to carry you.

Certification requires the structure to hold 150% of the greatest load expected in service, for three full seconds, without failing. Turbulence does not come close.

14 CFR § 25.305

Turbulence has never brought down a modern commercial jet.

It hurts people who are not belted in. That is the whole risk, and the belt removes it.

FAA — TURBULENCE

CHANCE YOU STEP OFF SAFELY

99.999993%

The worldwide figure for any scheduled boarding. Every modern flight lands in the same boringly-safe band.

SOURCE: MIT / ARNOLD BARNETT, 2024

RISKIEST PARTS OF THIS TRIP, RANKED

01The drive to the airport

02The escalator at Terminal 5

03The temperature of the airport coffee

47The flight itself

THE FACT

The Boeing 787 fleet carried over a billion passengers in under 14 years before its first fatal accident — Air India 171, June 2025, which killed 241 of the 242 people aboard and 19 on the ground.

SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA — AIR INDIA FLIGHT 171

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