Some people have a fear of flying, and who can blame them? Stories of a plane crash would scare anyone from doing it, and this fear exponentially increases if it happens to someone you know. However, technology has also changed.
Right now, engineers are doing their best to design planes that are safe and reliable. Pilots are also being trained harder so that they can make an informed decision should weather get in the way. With all these things in place, accidents have lowered.
Then, there’s the weather itself. For those on land, this is another one of Mother Nature’s furies that they constantly have to work about.
Weather and Flying
Ask any regular flyer, they start feeling agitated when a plane begins to shake from turbulence. Passengers often start twitching in their seats, hoping to get some good news from the pilot. The good news is that the last few years have been the safest in the history, in terms of aviation.
Between the years 2021 and 2022, the fatal rate of accidents aboard an aircraft worldwide was 0.24 per million flights. To put it in numbers, it was 1 in 4,240,000.
In reality, the number is considered to be realistically lower since the accounting method took into consideration fatalities from events such as hard landings, tail swipes, or runway collisions. They also accounted for those who were killed on ground, the crews, and others.
As for everyone’s fear of falling from the sky, this happened just once in 2022, and this didn’t happen in the Western Hemisphere at all.
In newspapers in different parts of the globe, writers continuously talk about climate catastrophe to end. However, many don’t have the discipline or the right frame of mind to talk about the most recent situation appropriately, especially the global news that everyone has talked about.
Even when the health experts from Canada mistakenly diagnosed a patient and said that he was suffering from “climate change” last year when a heatwave took place, the decadal rate of deaths per 100,000 people during extreme weather events all over the world has been at its lowest right now, even when different newspapers hone in on the extreme news of every heavy weather season.
Incidents such as landslides, heavy fog, glacial lake outbursts, wildfires, heavy storms of snow, snow, and wind, droughts, earthquakes, extreme heat, dry mass movement, floods, and volcanic activity have already been considered. They saw that global average is just 0.16 deaths per 100,000 people, and this was at its lowest ever since they started recording the numbers.
The reason behind the said decline is the unprecedented speed at which people are now getting out of the poverty bracket as well as countries in the Global South developing and getting into an income bracket that, they saw, ca now afford things such as air conditioning. Simply put, this means that those who were once extremely vulnerable to weather events are in now in a much better place to get through them unscathed.
There is also further growth of heavy industries among the fast developing countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria, India, and Turkey. This means that communities at risk for destabilizing events such as earthquakes and floods are now able to get rid of their earthen foundations and replace these with concrete. They’ve also changed their thatched roofs and gone for metal ones as well as using steel girders instead of wooden beams.
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