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Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the law-of-averages dept.

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."

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  1. It's safer in the back and... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    you're by the bathrooms and you can watch any hottie walk back to her seat.

    1. Re:It's safer in the back and... by ruiner13 · · Score: 4, Funny

      you're by the bathrooms and you can watch any hottie walk back to her seat. Yeah, and you can also smell the ripe dookie she just dropped in the can as she saunters on down the aisle.
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    2. Re:It's safer in the back and... by kharchenko · · Score: 5, Funny

      here's an obligatory feedback on the seat you're suggesting :)

    3. Re:It's safer in the back and... by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 4, Funny

      During the crash you will be covered with turds and blue water before being incinerated with jet fuel. Which is about as dignified as the rest of air travel these days.

    4. Re:It's safer in the back and... by hahiss · · Score: 3, Funny

      This is absurd to concern oneself with anyway since the death rate for commercial air travel is around 0.14 per billion miles. The death rate for automobile travel is 11,350% higher. Well, duh, that's why I drive sitting in the back seat of my car.
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  2. Sit in the rear by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rarely does an airplane back into the side of a mountain.

    1. Re:Sit in the rear by kryten_nl · · Score: 5, Funny

      Rarely does an airplane back into the side of a mountain. Because the mountains move aside when they hear that beeping sound and see the flashing lights?
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  3. Reminds me of... by rundstykke · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..an entertaining read I bumped into a couple of months back, describing how to survive a freefall from 35'000 feet...

    http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html


    /Rundstykke

    1. Re:Reminds me of... by Elemenope · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's funny. Laugh.

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  4. Re:What are the odds? by kryten_nl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Therefore, a far more useful article would be "How to survive driving off a seaside cliff into the ocean."

    Install wings on your car?
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  5. Not on Oceanic 815... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... where all but one of the survivors from the tail section so far as been kidnapped or murdered.

  6. Is it expensive by WormholeFiend · · Score: 3, Funny

    to get a seat inside the black box?

  7. Best way to survice a crash... by niceone · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...just reboot and you should be fine.

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  8. excellent by JustNiz · · Score: 3, Funny

    All those arrogant dicks in first class get to die first.

  9. Re:What are the odds? by pintpusher · · Score: 4, Funny

    Therefore, a far more useful article would be "How to survive driving off a seaside cliff into the ocean."

    Install wings on your car? and then climb to the back seat on the way down...
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  10. Re:What are the odds? by joseph449008 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, I think it has to do with crashing down from about an altitude of 30,000 feet.

  11. Don't sit in the back! by Per+Wigren · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's where the snakes are!

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  12. First Class by 15Bit · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

  13. I want to die like my grandfather... by microcars · · Score: 4, Funny
    peacefully in his sleep

    not like the passengers in his car, screaming and yelling

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  14. Re:What are the odds? by Poromenos1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    That does it. I'm getting my heart nailed in place!

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  15. Re:What are the odds? by Poromenos1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just about no airplane crashes from that height.

    That's true, most airplanes crash on the ground.
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  16. Re:What are the odds? by Alsee · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  17. /If/ you die? by ishmaelflood · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've got some bad news for you, unless you are a bacterium. It is WHEN you die, not IF.