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The 90 Second Window and the Mindset of Survival
Harnessing Panic in Your Favor
It probably won’t happen to you. Statistics show that the odds are in your favor — really, really in your favor.
Harvard University researcher, David Ropeik (2006), noted ”The annual risk of being killed in a plane crash for the average American is about 1 in 11 million.”
Arnold Barnett of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stated it this way “A traveler could on average fly once a day for 4 million years before succumbing to a fatal crash (2013).
And if you do happen to be on the one in every 1.2 million ill-fated flights that crashes? According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB, 2001) 95.7 percent of the passengers survive the crash. Furthermore, among even the most serious accidents that include fires, 76.6 percent of the passengers survive.
But rare does not mean never, so if it does happen to you, consider this — you’ve got 90 seconds to get out. 90 seconds to determine your own survival. 90 seconds to make a series of decisions that will save your life . . . or not.
That’s not a lot of time. But with the right mindset, it can be enough.
Research conducted by the FAA and the NTSB concluded that 40 percent of the fatalities that did…
