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How to die in an airplane More from my webwanderings. This is from sashinka, who is one of the other bloggers that the Guardian bloggers like.
One of the other students revealed [that] adopting the Brace Position during airplane emergencies does not improve your chances of surviving an impact. What it does do is preserve the location of your teeth in proximity to your mortal remains in order to aid forensic odontologists in corpse identification.
That sounds horribly true to me. Sashinka got it from somewhere (don’t know where) in a blog/website/virtual place called Methysalicylate. Most blogs go up and down, but Methy-etc. scrolls sideways. Well why not?
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Where is the picture of the man described in Kathleen Parker’s column of 9-15-02, “plunging from one of the towers?”
The article is called News from another Universe. The link will take you there.
There very often are survivors in crash landings. The problem is, most air disasters are in-flight catastrophic failures, and in those airplanes tend to come down either in piecces or as one big hole.
Even the Air Florida crash of January 1982 had a handful of survivors after stalled on takeoff and crashed into the 14th Street Bridge on the Potomac River in Washington. [It just so happens I drove across the bridge that very same afternoon!]
Another example is the 1989 United Airlines crash landing in Sioux City, Iowa in which the pilot brought the plane in with no control except for throttles. He saved over half the passengers. If you’ve ever seen the footage of it breaking up and rolling down the runway in a fireball, you would think this rather miraculous.