How to Survive A Plane Crash

Have you been in a crash and survived... in a car, plane crashes are WAY worse than a car crash imagine a car going at 45 miles per hour crashing. Now imagine a plane going at 540 miles per hour plunging to the ground and immediately turning into a ball of fire burning up a bunch of people. A car crash will just make a broken hood and maybe a broken bone while a plane will leave you on the ground with no organs or flesh just bones.

Here are some facts.

• Airplane accidents have a 95.7% survivability rate, according to the US National Transportation Safety Board.
• Despite the public's often fatalistic attitudes when it comes to flying, there are some things you can do to increase their chances of survival.
• Next time you're on a flight, don't think about all the ways you can die. Think about all the ways you can survive.

Choose a middle seat in the back

In 2015, Time studied airplane accidents from the previous 35 years. It found that the seats in the back third of the plane had a 32% fatality rate, compared to 39% in the middle and 38% in the front. And if you narrow it down even further, the middle seats in the back had the best odds of survival, and the aisle seats in the middle of the craft had the worst.

Put your small carry-on under the seat

Putting your carry-on under the seat in front of you closes that gap, so your legs can't slide under and get caught. It can also pad your shins if they fly forward during an impact.

Stay attached to something

In the rare event that an accident occurs while the plane is cruising, you could be faced with a free fall. Surviving a six-mile plummet is highly unlikely, but not impossible. And if you stay attached to something, your chances are a little bit better (but not 100%).

"Wreckage rider" is a term coined by amateur historian Jim Hamilton. Hamilton developed the Free Fall Research Page, an online database of nearly every instance of humans falling from great heights. The record for the longest survived fall without a parachute is held by a wreckage rider.

In 1972, a flight attendant named Vesna Vulovic fell 10 Kilometers (10.0584 to be exact) after the plane she was on blew up over Czechoslovakia. Wedged between a catering cart, her seat, a piece of the plane, and the body of a fellow crew member, she crashed into a snowy incline severely injured but still alive.

Brace for impact

The Federal Aviation Administration (faa.gov) has been testing brace positions on crash-test dummies since 1967. The most General one was.

Lean forward and keep your head close to the seat in front of you

This serves two purposes. One is to keep flailing to a minimum, and the other is to reduce the chance of a secondary impact. The secondary impact is a head injury on top of a head injury, like what might happen if your head hits the seat in front of you multiple times during a crash. The Federal Aviation Administration recommends holding your head against the object it may hit and flexing or bending your limbs inward to keep them in place.

Congrats you have learned how to survive a fatal air accident or plane crash here are useful links.

https://www.faa.gov/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-survive-a-plane-crash/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/How-to-survive-a-plane-crash/

https://www.theflightexpert.com/how-to-survive-a-plane-crash/

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