How Safe Is Flying?
Just in case your parents are concerned about safety and flying, here is an excellent (quantifiable and verifiable) statistic to convince them that a career as a pilot is indeed safe:
In May 2006, Mr. Nicholas Sabatini, the FAA's chief safety official, gave a speech to an audience of international air safety investigators. As part of his speech, he made safety statistics meaningful: He said that if you flew on a U.S. jet once a day, every day, 365 flights a year, it would be 43,000 years before you had a 50-50 chance of being in a fatal crash. In other words, the risk is almost zero.
How secure are pilot jobs at the airlines presently?
TO PATRICK: Some US airlines are hiring now. Some are not right now. European & Asian airlines are hiring; some are in dire need of pilots. For more information, contact www.pea.com and fill out a Contact Form. We'll then call or email you to directly answer any questions.
Posted by: Patrick | May 18, 2008 at 05:48 PM