If you are in a plane crash, what is the probability that you will survive? That is to say: if you added up all the people who have ever been in a plane crash, what proportion of them would not have survived the crash?
From: AQA [63336]
If you are in a plane crash when the plane is at high altitude, survival probability is less than 1 in 100. At low altitude it is around 1 in 5.
I was pondering this question aloud as the easyjet taxied down the runway for takeoff to Norway. Several friends kindly asked me to STFU.
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Someone was trying to tell me last night that the reason they want you to put your head between your legs is so that if the plane crashes, you break your neck and die painlessly. Surely that's not true.
Probably is. Or at least so that there's less chance of the rescue squads being faced with a row of heads with holes in them/top of skull sliced off, etc.
Along with the one about oxygen being pumped in to make you a little delirious and not panic, freak out and make things worse.
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My problem with the oxygen thing is ... how could it be worse?
I don't think you actually put your head between your legs in the brace position. You just cur l up into a shape best able to absorb the impact, without having your whole head and body whipped around.