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Am I going down ": This app is intended to predict plane crashes


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Ironically, a crash-crash app should now help people with fear of flying

The new app "Am I going down" should help people who are afraid of flying - with unbeatable facts. But does that really help ...?

The plane is statistically the safest means of transport in the world! Everyone knows that. Nevertheless, there are many people who are afraid of flying. The app "Am I going down" should help these people now.

Even if they are not afraid of flying, most people have at least a queasy feeling when they get on a plane. Completely unfounded. In fact, most people know that too. But the feeling remains.

To give this feeling even more logical arguments, the experts of "Vanilla Pixel", a London IT company, the app "Am I going down" (translated "Will I crash?") Developed. The app provides simple statistical facts.

This is how the Air crash application "Am I going down" works:

Very easily! If you have booked a flight, enter in the app your departure and destination airport, the airline you are using and the aircraft model (see screenshots below). Ask the app then "Am I going down?" and she answers you with probabilities - and of course these are reassuringly low.

The app uses real flight statistics to calculate the likelihood of a plane crash . The data of more than ten million routes flowed into the development of the app. Only accidents were considered in which at least one person died.

In the example below, you can see that the probability of boarding a flight from San Francisco to London on American Airlines is 1 to 3.646.151. Even more vivid is the sentence below, which calculates "You would have to take this flight for 9, 989 years every day to crash."

The app is available for 99 cents in the App Store, when it will be synonymous for Android, is pending.

We think this app is a nice idea and an exciting gimmick. It does, however, provide numbers that people with fear of flying have probably heard often enough ... Does that help ...?

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Photos: Vanilla Pixel
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