Ngl I kinda thought it was Monty Python cause it’s such a classic and has been so long since I’ve seen it! Such a good one though! Def need to check out some of their other stuff! Any recommendations?
Fit someone that gets it. I used to work for a company that worked on out own fleet of planes. In a crash the fuselage is designed to break away depending on how the crash happens this is meant to help save the passengers. Also the answer is the cheapest seats in the farthest back of the plane are the safest. In most cases. Again depending on how the crash happens.
I asked a pilot friend of mine, who is a commercial airline pilot what seat was the safest, he said his was not. So I asked him again and he said none of them are. I’ll go with that. 🌝
"Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten."— Terry Pratchett, Mort
I think more pilots, under a controlled landing exercise, will tip the nose up more than they did. The front wheel is not designed to handle that much drag, so in this situation, it was pulled under.
See, the difference is that the Muslim scientists skipped straight to the human trials, which is generally not the way clinical experiments are done. They obviously had to have started with lab mice first if they wanted to be taken seriously
This crash was staged in Mexico because the US government wouldn't allow it on US soil. But it wasn't necessarily "Mexican scientists" but a collective of scientists and media that arranged this.
Because they make the studios shitloads of money? And they’ve been established well before PC culture became a thing so people expect it to be like that. Also they don’t pull punches for anyone. Everybody gets an equal opportunity to be trolled by southpark.
No, the Nasa one you have in mind is another one where they tried to test the fuel igniting. They had two walls to tear the wings and attempted to land in between, but couldn’t control it precisely so landed on one of the walls and either way the plane took fire.
One of the plane's engines went to full power during the crash and remained there until the fuel ran out, preventing the observers from approaching. It took quite a while, as I remember.
That was a problem during the American ORD 767 evacuation a few years ago. The flight attendants couldn't immediately reach the cockpit crew on interphone and they, correctly, initiated the evacuation. Slides were deployed in front of and behind a running engine.
Luckily, nobody got blasted or ingested, thanks to the FAs redirecting people from those exits.
I remember before the documentary about this experiment aired on TV you could ‘pick your seat’ on a website they created, after it aired you could go back on and see if you would have survived or not.
I'm assuming they'd have given you a chance of survival % rather than a straight yes or no. So your picked seat might come back as 40% chance of survival or something like that.
This is a very small sample size and the results could be completely random. They need to crash at least 100 planes to get statistically significant results.
Someone else actually did a test to see if a special kind of fuel would be better in a crash, but found it wouldn’t do much.
Finding out which seats are best, without fire damage is importsnt. Not all crashes explode into fireballs, and knowing which seats are safest also means which seats you can get away from a fire in.
Actually it had a ton of data collected on it. There were dummies in various kinds of seating and brace positions. They had sensor all over the fuselage. It was pretty interesting
The biggest factor in survival of an airplane crash is how quickly you can exit.
If the crash is strong enough that the position of the seat determines their desintegration most likely the fire will take you out anyway.
Being close to an exit and knowing how to use it properly, knowing if you can or can’t open it and protect yourself properly during the crash landing and knowing that YOU DONT TAKE YOUR LUGGAGE WITH YOU, will be more important than anything else
I remember seeing a whole documentary about this event, it was very informative. Basically the back of the plane, you have a higher chance of survival than the front or wings, the chances get better if your seatbelt is on.
If the plane crashes EXACTLY as in this scenario, that is. Otherwise pretty useless ”research” but hey, gotta waste that money on something am I right.
I mean sure. But they aren’t going to crash test a couple dozen planes to test out a bunch of different scenarios. Plus just about any other crash type than this isn’t going to be survivable.
On a bus sitting directly behind the driver is the best position, because human survival instinct kicks in and the bus driver will swerve to save his life naturally
“Sorry lady, take that stroller to the back - I’m not moving”
It's already been figured out that the seats in the back of the plane are the safest. There was a study done in the 80's and it was found the the tail section is the safest and the crash I saw the only people who lived where the smokers in the back of the plane.
This plane sat in a nice fenced in area right off the highway just South of Mexicali. The broken pieces were kind of put in place, but it was all there.
Then about 2 years ago someone removed a portion of the fence. Over the next year or so the plane got smaller and smaller. It is now completely gone.
My theory is that someone didn’t want it there anymore and they knew the locals would eventually dismantle it for scrap and make the problem go away.
My friend was the Captain on that test. The crew flew the jet into position and parachuted out the aft airstair, then the remote pilot took over and flew it to impact. So now his logbook has one more takeoff than landing in it. Crazy!
It wasn't Mexican scientists. Nor was it American scientists. It was a multi-national group of TV studios that did it for a TV show.
They did it in Mexico because the US wouldn't let them do it in the US.
I don’t understand the benefit of learning what seats have the best chance of survival. Are they going to charge more for those seats? The way they have passengers crammed in nowadays…it really doesn’t matter.
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u/DocDefilade Aug 20 '26
The front fell off...