Half of Americans are now scared to fly in the United States after a recent spate of terrifying plane crashes.
Fifty percent of people polled said they did not feel 100 percent safe flying in the US at the moment, while 34 percent said they felt safe and 16 percent were unsure, according to an exclusive DailyMail.com poll carried out by JL Partners.
Female passengers tended to be more concerned – with 54 percent of the women polled saying they did not feel 100 percent safe taking a domestic passenger plane.
Some 26 percent of women said they did feel 100 percent safe and 20 percent were unsure.
By comparison, 45 percent of men said they did not feel 100 percent safe flying in the US, while 43 percent said they did feel 100 percent safe and 12 percent were unsure.
Just over 1,000 registered voters in the US took the survey, which was conducted between March 5 and 7 this year.
It comes after a spate of concerning air accidents involving US passenger planes, including the American Airlines flight which crashed killing 67 people earlier this year.
Half of Americans believe it’s currently not 100 percent safe to catch a flight in the US, a shocking new survey has revealed. (Pictured: The aftermath of the deadly American Airlines crash which killed 67 people earlier this year close to Washington DC)
On February 17, a Delta passenger plane crashed-landed upside down in chaotic scenes at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada (pictured above)
The plane collided with a US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington DC on the evening of January 29.
Both aircraft were just a half-mile short of the runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, when tragedy struck.
Those killed included 60 passengers and four airline employees on board the passenger plane, along with three crew members in the helicopter.
It marked the deadliest US air disaster in 24 years, and the first major US commercial passenger flight crash in more than 15 years, following the Colgan Air Flight crash in 2009.
Per the New York Times, an air traffic controller was left to handle both helicopter traffic and planes – duties which should have been divided between two people.
The FAA report said that staffing configuration ‘was not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic’.
It has also emerged that the Army helicopter, which was carrying three soldiers, involved in the collision might have also deviated from its approved flight path.
Insiders told the NYT the Sikorsky H-60 Black Hawk helicopter was not on its approved route and flying higher than it should have been.
Half of Americans believe it’s currently not 100 percent safe to catch a flight in the US, a shocking new survey has revealed. (Pictured: The aftermath of the deadly American Airlines crash which killed 67 people earlier this year close to Washington DC)
Less than a month later, on February 17, a Delta passenger plane crashed-landed upside down in chaotic scenes at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada.
Miraculously, everyone on board survived after being suspended upside-down by their seatbelts for several minutes until they tentatively began evacuating.
The plane had been heading to Toronto from Minneapolis – Saint Paul International Airport with 76 passengers and four crew members on board.
Some 21 people were taken to the hospital for treatment to minor injuries, and Delta has offered each person a no-strings $30,000 payout in compensation.
And the plane carnage is ongoing – on Sunday, yet another jet crash-landed, this time in a parking lot of a suburban Pennsylvania retirement home.
Dramatic footage showed the Beechcraft A36TC erupt in flames in the parking lot of Brethren Village in Manheim Township. Five people were rushed to hospital.
Medics, ambulances, and emergency vehicles rushed to the scene in Lancaster County as flames engulfed the plane and nearby vehicles.
The plane took off as scheduled on Sunday afternoon, but quickly requested to land back on the tarmac because its door had opened.
On February 17, a Delta passenger plane crashed-landed upside down in chaotic scenes at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada (aftermath pictured above)
Horrifying air traffic control audio revealed the pilot telling ground agents that they needed to turn around – but at one point he said that he couldn’t hear the radio because of all the wind noise, caused by the unlocked hatch.
The air traffic controller can be heard saying: ‘Pull up… the aircraft is down just behind the terminal in the parking lot tree area.’
In a statement to DailyMail.com, an FAA spokesperson said five people were on board the plane. They have all been transferred to local hospitals with various injuries.
Other recent plane horrors include a mid-air collision over Arizona’s Marana Airport on February 19 which killed two people.
One of the planes was left in a pile of rubble and ashes after it crash-landed next to the runway, while the other aircraft landed safely, according to the Associated Press.