Flight Risk
BBC
Flying is one of the safest ways to travel. Airplanes cause significantly fewer deaths per million people than sea, rail or road. But things do go wrong.
So what is the most common cause of air crashes? What is the emerging trend among the causes? And what phase of a flight is the most dangerous?
To explore the subject for BBC Future, we looked at every commercial plane crash from 1993 onwards and created an interactive visualization that revealed the patterns and connections hidden in the data.
