APP“我在坠落吗？”(Am I Going Down?)

　　Travellers with a fear of flying should be reassured that the chances of them crashing are only one in nine million, according to the maker of an app called “Am I Going Down?”

　　那些恐惧飞行的人应该安心了，因为根据最新的一款APP“我在坠落吗？”（Am I Going Down?）统计，飞机失事的概率只有九百万分之一。

　　That is, however, unless you are flying between Hong Kong and Los Angeles with Cathay Pacific on a Boeing 777,in which case they are more like one in 4,068,434. Which is worse, of course,but not significantly so。

　　但是，如果你乘坐的是国泰航空公司从香港到洛杉矶的波音777，这一概率会上升至1/4,068,434。但尽管这一概率增加了，失事的可能性依然很小。

　　An American Airlines flight between San Francisco and London Heathrow with American Airlines on an Airbus 330 is also very slightly more likely to crash, according to the app which gives it odds of one in 2,783,874.

　　此外，美国航空从旧金山到英国西斯罗的空客330也更容易失事，APP显示它的坠毁率是1/2,783,874。

　　The service allows users to calculate the odds for every flight they take in the hope that all those zeroes will calm pre-flight nerves。

　　这款服务可以为用户计算他们乘坐的每班航班的失事率，以此来减轻乘客飞行前的紧张情绪。

　　It lets you select airline and aircraft models (each ranked by their safety records)， along with the departure and destination details, in order to calculate the final odds of “going down”。

　　通过这款APP，用户可以选择航空公司、飞机机型(每款机型都会根据它们的安全记录进行排名)、起点和终点，以此来计算失事的概率。

英国航空公司(从伦敦到纽约的波音747)失事概率

　　If that’s not enough perspective for you, in the British Airways example above (based on taking a 747 from London to New York)， a one in 9,283,062 chance of crashing equates to the plane going down once every 25,433 years, supposing you were to take the same flight every day。

　　如果你觉得上述的百分比不够明白，这款APP还给你提供了另外一种计算方式，以英国航空公司(从伦敦到纽约的波音747)为例，它的失事率是1/9,283,062，即如果你天天乘坐，那么每25,433年，你会坠毁一次。

　　Within the airline rankings, the app includes the number of years since an airline’s last fatal incident。

　　这款APP对所有的航班失事都进行了记录，并对航空公司进行排名。

　　As it can only be downloaded onto an iPhone at the moment, Android users will have to console themselves with the fact that – even without the odds to hand - crashing is very, very unlikely。

　　目前，iphone用户已经可以下载这款app，而安卓用户也可以安心，因为即使没有这款应用，他们也可以确信飞机的失事率是很低很低的。

　　(来源：《每日电讯》；编译：Heidi))