New app will analyze the odds of your flight crashing

 "New app will analyze the odds of your flight crashing"

A new app has been launched to help people conquer the fear of flying by providing cold hard stats on the unlikeness that their flight will crash.

Though the app is meant to help calm nerves among those who suffer from a phobia of flying, its name is, perhaps, not very reassuring.



After providing all the flight information necessary -- type of aircraft, departing and arriving airports, and airline -- the app crunches raw data and crash statistics from a variety of different sources (International Civil Aviation Organization and National Transportation Safety Board in the US) before giving users their odds of crashing.

Crash statistics are incorporated with the number of fatalities and volume of flights, and weighted against data over the last decade.

The release of the app comes after a particularly deadly year in aviation history, with the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370, and the crash of AirAsia QZ8501.
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