Southwest Airline NTSB
Investigators examining damage to the engine of a Southwest Airlines plane in Philadelphia on April 17, 2018.
    • Plane crashes are extremely rare. The odds of dying in a plane are about 1 in 205,552.
    • If you want to feel safer, some seats that have a better track record during crashes than others. 
    • Data from past crashes and crash tests show that the back of the plane is probably the safest.

Plane crashes are exceptionally rare.

But as the recent crash of a Yeti Airlines plane in Nepal has shown, it is still possible for something to go wrong.