{"id":246956,"date":"2025-07-06T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/seat-11a-safest-on-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T19:00:17","slug":"seat-11a-is-it-really-the-safest-seat-on-your-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=246956","title":{"rendered":"Seat 11A: Is It Really The Safest Seat On Your Flight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The travel myth that 11A could be the safest seat on a flight has been circulating since the miraculous survival of Kumar Ramesh, the lone survivor of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3501133\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-india-flight-171\/\"  >Air India Flight 171<\/a><\/span>. Ramesh had been visiting friends and family in India before returning to the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"204667\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-kingdom\/\"  >United Kingdom<\/a><\/span>. Ramesh was the sole survivor of the flight, walking off the plane while behind him, 241 others remained dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there is plenty of speculation, experts have stated that there is no such thing as the &#8216;safest seat&#8217; onboard an aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,9668,14965,3086,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-seating","category-airsafety","category-seat","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246957,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246956\/revisions\/246957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}