Flying - The Safest way of Transport.

In August 24, 2001, an Air Transat Airbus A330, heading from Toronto, Canada to Lisbon, Portugal, experienced problems with the left engine's fuel supply. Hours later, the plane runs out of fuel over the Atlantic and the 230,000Kg A330 with 304 people on-board, without engine power, glided for almost 20 minutes, descending from for more than 30,000 ft. before landing safely at Lajes Airport.

How safe can an airplane be?

These machines can fly without power. Yes, no engine running and still the heavy machines can fly and land safely with somany passenger on-board. These are not miracles. They are made to do so. They can land on sea, on grass fields and so on... Most of the systems in an airplane have redundant backups, or fail-safe techonology involved with them... so that you can fly safely...

But accidents do happen!!!

Air Transet A330 evacuation slide deployed for emergency evacuation on Lajes Air Base