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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 kharchenko · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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

    That's where the snakes are!

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