ChatterBank1 min ago
The Brace Position
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Sometimes i worry. whats the point of wearing a seat belt or getting into "crash position" when the aluminiun tube you are traveling in, is about to hit the ocean at 600mph.
i think given the choice ide rather join the mile high club. the three quaters of a mile club. the half a mile high club. the quater of a mile high club, and the submariners club all in the space of 10.1 seconds...
alternatively, ide like to run up and down the plane screaming "WERE ALL GONNA DIE !" :-)
Excuse the expression but what a load of tosh!
Of the initial 87 survivors of the East Midlands Boeing 737/400 aircraft, 77 sustained head and facial trauma during the crash, 45 of whom were rendered unconscious. There were 21 who received injuries to the back of their head, including 5 of the 6 severely head-injured adults. Those passengers who adopted the fully flexed "brace" position for crash-landing achieved significant protection against head injury, concussion, and injuries from behind irrespective of local aircraft structural damage.
the funny thing about aeroplanes is that the human body can withstand more "g force" than the seat you trust your life to... so in effect you could withstand a crash landing and have the chair you or another passenger are sitting in, kill you !
i think that was a finding of the East Midland crash. also lots of people had massive leg injuries. this, i believe was because of the nature of crash,(belly flopping on to a steep enbankment) and due to the fact that seating collapsed.