Two different survivors of deadly plane crashes decades apart say they both sat in seat 11A. Is there something that makes that seat safter than others? Not according to aviation and disaster medicine experts.

In 2012 a Boeing jet was deliberately crashed in the Sonaran desert, Mexico and filmed it for television. The test revealed the safest seat to sit in.

There have been cases of a very small number of survivors in very serious accidents, but it is "very rare" for there to be only one, a professor told Newsweek.