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Knowing which seats on a plane are the most dangerous in a crash – i.e. the seats you’re most likely to die – is a morbid, yet perhaps useful piece of information to have filed away somewhere in your brain.
However! No one really wants an airline that they may use to travel to tweet out such a fact out, basically saying, “Come fly with us! But just know, if you book one of these seats, your chances of survival go down considerably in a crash.”
This is a lesson Dutch airline KLM in India is learning the hard way this week after they tweeted as a part of their “Trivia Tuesday” program, “According to Time, the fatality rate for the seats in the middle of the plane is the highest. However, the fatality rate for the seats in the front is marginally lesser and is least for seats at the rear third of a plane.”
https://twitter.com/RuudWedding/status/1151711464253788165
Soooo… DON’T book a seat on one of your planes if all that’s available is a seat near the front? Is that what they are trying to tell potential customers?
As if things weren’t bad enough for KLM, their main Twitter account is currently getting absolutely destroyed for a completely different tweet they made this week about breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding is permitted at KLM flights. However, to ensure that all our passengers of all backgrounds feel comfortable on board, we may request a mother to cover herself while breastfeeding, should other passengers be offended by this.
— KLM (@KLM) July 16, 2019
Check out that ratio.
. @klm: man, we’re sure getting a lot of flak for that breastfeeding tweet.@KLMIndia: hold my Kingfisher pic.twitter.com/LjM0PbZC4O
— Steven (@Airwaysfoodie) July 17, 2019
Shockingly, the death seat tweet by KLM India has since been deleted. But, you know… internet…
https://twitter.com/james55727724/status/1151552515017773056
https://twitter.com/james55727724/status/1151551869455654913The airline has since apologized for… something…
We would like to sincerely apologise for a recent update. The post was based on a publically available aviation fact, and isn't a @KLM opinion. It was never our intention to hurt anyone's sentiments. The post has since been deleted.
— KLM India (@KLMIndia) July 17, 2019
Too late!
AH just what I always wondered. Where to sit on a plane to avoid sudden death. Ty @KLMIndia https://t.co/LTdiHzAl8n
— Sophie Aubrey (@sopphie) July 18, 2019
I always thought it was obvious the seats at the back were safest, I’ve never heard of a plane reversing into a mountain.
— Chach Vader (@Chach_Vader) July 18, 2019
The planes crashing thank fuck im at the back, those cunts 10 rows ahead are fucked
— Jamie Barr (@JamieBarr1888) July 17, 2019
That's what happens when you give the new intern the keys to Twitter!
— Roger Dooley (@rogerdooley) July 17, 2019
Can you just confirm though, which seat might I not die in if I fly with you? pic.twitter.com/A9fPRyaXSs
— LED London (@LED_London) July 17, 2019
Can you tell what kinds of fatal injuries we can expect from each position? Like decapitation, or just boring old blunt injuries to the chest and abdomen?
— Dave Bowers (@LikelyStoryDave) July 17, 2019
TRUTH.
Not the best tweet on the fifth anniversary of crash of #MH17 and KL4103 - as it was also a KLM flight.
— Sarah in Europe (@DutchieLondon) July 18, 2019
OUCH.
https://twitter.com/jetpack/status/1151554491973586950Never change, Internet. Never change.