Nervous about an engine failure? Or a lightning strike? Here's why you shouldn't fear flying.
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00:00It's normal.
00:30Of course, it happens very well most of the time, with a very important statistic.
00:35Basically, when you drive 6.5 km in France, the risk is about 6 times higher than when you take a plane, whatever the country.
00:45And that's on average over the last three years.
00:52Airplanes are designed to withstand lightning.
00:55And on average, airplanes all catch lightning twice a year.
00:59So we're not in a situation to avoid when we see thunderstorms outside.
01:03A lot of people are afraid of engine failure.
01:05It's probably the main idea around the fear of the plane.
01:09You should know that all modern planes, from the moment you take a plane on a reliable area,
01:14that is, roughly speaking, all Airbus, all Boeing, all this generation of aircraft,
01:18a plane that would even lose an engine during the take-off phase, is able to continue its take-off and make its journey.
01:25Now, if it happened during a cruise flight, the plane has the ability to fly for several hours on its other engine.
01:30If we imagine the disaster scenario, a plane that would lose its two engines in this context,
01:35you should know that the plane is able to continue to fly while gliding.
01:44We have a very important media focus.
01:47At the same number of deaths, an air crash will make 200 times more media noise than any other type of event.
01:52That's what's surprising. The less events we have, the more we are able to relay them.
01:56If you had a crash a week, in the end, we wouldn't talk about it anymore.
01:59And since they are excessively rare, good, there are 2, 3 or 0 a year,
02:03as soon as there is one, we are able to focus and make breaking news like that for 24, 48 hours, 72 hours.
02:15The very last generation of aircraft, which appeared from the 90s, is able to avoid putting itself in a dangerous situation.
02:21That is, we even have planes that will refuse to make difficult turns, to go too slowly,
02:26to take angles of inclination that will exceed the limits of the aircraft.
02:30Airplanes are designed to resist hail, lightning, to enter the worst turbulence.
02:35Airplanes today are designed to enter turbulence that does not even exist on Earth.
02:44Low-cost companies have exactly the same type of operation as other companies from the point of view of air safety.
02:50That is, the pilots receive the same training, they are trained in the same way,
02:54they will have a medical follow-up that will be exactly the same, they have identical rests.
02:59Because all this is framed at the level of air safety of countries,
03:02such as Europe, also the large areas that will be regulated will impose these standards.
03:07We must understand that we will impose a level that will be very high,
03:10because if a company does not respect this level, we will put it on what is called a black list,
03:15and the aircraft will not have the right to come in areas that are reliable.
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