LIVE FLIGHTS → BA 249

BA 249 will land safely.

LHR

LONDON

✈

GIG

RIO

ALTITUDE

38,000 ft

cruising, smooth air

AIRCRAFT

787-9

6.2 yrs old · spotless record

THIS ROUTE

4,812

safe arrivals in a row

Your flight's safety story

This exact aircraft (G-ZBKA) has flown 11,408 flights.

Every one landed safely. Inspected by engineers 14 hours ago.

Your pilots have ~23,000 combined flight hours.

That's 2.6 years in the air. They've seen every kind of weather.

Turbulence forecast: light, over the Atlantic.

Annoying for your coffee. Irrelevant to the wings — they're tested to bend 3× further than any storm requires.

CHANCE OF A SAFE ARRIVAL

99.999995%

Better than average — modern jet, calm weather, top-tier airline.

RISKIEST PARTS OF THIS TRIP, RANKED

01The drive to the airport

02The escalator at Terminal 5

03The temperature of the airport coffee

47The flight itself

THE FACT

The Boeing 787 fleet has carried over 1 billion passengers without a single fatal accident since entering service in 2011.

SOURCE: BOEING / AVIATION SAFETY NETWORK, 2026

British Airways safety record→

Illustrative safety profile for a flight like BA 249 — per-flight aircraft, crew and route data wire in with a flight-data API. The 99.999995% figure is derived from the 787-9's fatal-accident rate; every modern scheduled flight lands in the same boringly-safe band.

BREATHE IN AND OUT

You're riding the safest form of travel humans have ever built.

That rumble or whine is normal — flaps, landing gear, engines changing power. Your pilots hear it every flight.

Turbulence is uncomfortable, never dangerous. It has never brought down a modern jet.

Right now, ~9,412 planes are in the air with you. Statistically, every single one lands safely.