You may have paid the price to travel first class but that doesn’t mean you have bought a safer seat than those in economy class, according to a new study on how to survive a plane crash.

 According to the study where a Boeing 727 carrying cameras, sensors and crash test dummies with breakable bones was deliberately crashed into the Sonoran Desert in Mexico earlier this year, passengers in economy class are more likely to survive in the event of a crash.

Results from the planned crash revealed passengers sat towards the front of the plane, usually reserved for first class, business class or premium economy passengers, were less like to survive the impact.

In this particular test, the first 11 rows of seats were ripped off with a force of 12G recorded in this area of the aircraft.

Interestingly, experts concluded that 78 percent of the other passengers would survive; with the chance of this increasing the closer they were sitting to the rear of the aircraft.

During the test dummies were also arranged in various positions to see which was more affective in avoiding injury, one in the classic "brace" position with a seat belt fastened, one with just the seat belt fastened, and a third with neither.

Results for this test showed the brace position while in a seat belt can save your life, while resuming the brace position without a seatbelt would lead to severe head injuries and not wearing a seatbelt at all would be fatal.