23 million dollars were spent by NASA on a prototype toilet for the Space Shuttle.

1. This means one would have to fly 1.25 million flights and 1.25 billion kilometers before being involved in a potential flying accident.
2. Statistically speaking it is three times more likely to die of a heart attack while flying than be killed in an air accident.
3. Based on fatalities per million passengers over a 20 year period and barring terrorist-related deaths, the worst airlines are:

1-Turkish Airlines=124.48

2-Air India=21.48

3-Avianca=5.93

4-Nigeria Airways=5.53

5-LOT (Polish Airlines)=4.53

4. But on the bright side, the following airlines have never had a fatal accident

"I'm ready. Barkis was a character in David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens (1850), who sent a message to Clara Peggotty by way of Copperfield that, "Barkis is willin'." Barkis meant he was proposing marriage . The term was soon applied to any kind of willingness."

"German-noun. In southern Germany and Austria: the carnival season extending from Epiphany to Shrove Tuesday; a carnival."

(From The Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases edited by Jennifer Speakeã 1997, published by Oxford University Press)

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