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Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash
Ant writes "Popular Mechanics shares a short article on an exclusive look at 36 years' worth of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports and seating charts to determine the best way to live through a disaster in the sky. Move to the back of the Airbus."
you're by the bathrooms and you can watch any hottie walk back to her seat.
Rarely does an airplane back into the side of a mountain.
..an entertaining read I bumped into a couple of months back, describing how to survive a freefall from 35'000 feet...
/Rundstykke
http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html
provided you aren't driving. That is much more important question. Or even better yet, why in the hell are SUVs legal? An ever better question that can save many more lives!
Monstar L
For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
... where all but one of the survivors from the tail section so far as been kidnapped or murdered.
to get a seat inside the black box?
...just reboot and you should be fine.
ccalam - acoustic versions of new songs.
All those arrogant dicks in first class get to die first.
So, the back of the plane is safest, and that's where they put the smokers?
You'd think they'd put those who want to commit slow suicide in the nose or something, just to help them speed things along.
man, I feel like mold.
No, I think it has to do with crashing down from about an altitude of 30,000 feet.
That's where the snakes are!
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
As a regular flier in cattle-class, i'd just like to say that its nice to see first class passengers getting the preferential treatment they deserve. First on, first off and first into the mountainside...
not like the passengers in his car, screaming and yelling
I like microcars
The safest seat in a crash is probably a window seat so God can better hear your pleas for him to save you.
On Lost, the ones towards the back were the first to be picked off by "the others." Only the front seats for me!
C'est honky - it's a noir thing.
Okay, so it would work up to a point. The 'point' being the airliner that crashes into your house.
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Is it still legal to bring toast and butter on a plane?
That does it. I'm getting my heart nailed in place!
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That's true, most airplanes crash on the ground.
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From TFA: "So when the "experts" tell you it doesn't matter where you sit, have a chuckle and head for the back of the plane. And once your seatbelt is firmly fastened, relax: There's been just one fatal jet crash in the U.S. in the last five-plus years."
Thats good to know, specially when I live in Brazil.
Already got mine well padded. Papa John's, Pizza Hut, Mickey D's...
the aorta ruptures and you die of a cardiac tamponade
Speaking as a guy, tamponade sounds like a really embarrassing way to die.
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I've got some bad news for you, unless you are a bacterium. It is WHEN you die, not IF.
This could be solved if they used one giant parachute to help the entire plane float to the ground...
All of a sudden chivalry makes a comeback as men everywhere offer their mother-in-laws the more comfortable front seats of the plane.
Yup, because there's no activity that is bad for you that people still partake in, bar smoking. Drinking, why that's just a big bottle of multivitamin!