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This app tells you the probability of your plane crashing

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‘Am I Going Down’ is a pretty simple app: given your departure, destination, airline and aircraft of choice, it spits out the odds of your plane turning into a fiery wreck. It’s meant to put nervous fliers at ease, thanks to the astronomic odds (one in 5.4 million for my last transatlantic flight) of crashing.

The app, built by London-based Vanilla Pixel, uses data from accident archives and flight records from the NTSA and International Civil Aviation Organization, among others.
via Gizmodo

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