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As it says in the article: Such an over-crowded flight would have caused problems in an emergency evacuation, aviation experts said, and passengers
by quirkafleeg 10y ago
As it says in the article:
Such an over-crowded flight would have caused
problems in an emergency evacuation, aviation
experts said, and passengers would not have
had access to oxygen if it was suddenly required.
Additionally, you don't wear a seatbelt on a plane to save you from a crash, you wear it to stop yourself being injured during turbulence, or from injuring someone else by being thrown onto them. Obviously these people did not have seatbelts.
- jon-wood 10y agoI don't know if this is actually true, but I read recently that in the case of a crash the seatbelt isn't there to stop you dying, its to keep your body attached to your assigned seat so that you can be identified afterwards.
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- stordoff 10y agoSounds like the old "brace position is to kill you rather than injure you" myth to me. Struggling for a better source, but: > And the seat belts that flight attendants urge you to wear during most of the flight also helped to keep head and neck injuries to a minimum, says Dr. David King, a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. “Clearly for the vertical deceleration [typical] of an airplane crash, the lap belt seems to be the most important restraint,” he says. http://healthland.time.com/2013/07/09/lessons-from-flight-214-should-airplane-seats-have-shoulder-belts/ http://healthland.time.com/2013/07/09/lessons-from-flight-21...
- quirkafleeg 10y agoHaven't heard that before, but even if true people often move seats, so it wouldn't be very accurate.
- FabHK 10y agoA myth. Sure, there are accidents where everyone perishes with or without seatbelt (and those make the headlines), but there are surprisingly many accidents where some or many people survive. > "between 1983 and 2000, more than 95 percent of people involved in U.S. plane crashes survived." http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2619382&page=1 http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2619382&page=1
- 4ad 10y agoI agree that it is a myth, but that statistic is misleading, the definition used for "plane crash" is not one most people would agree with.
- FabHK 10y agoFair enough, but bottom line is that lots can happen on a flight that might injure you, without necessarily being a prototypical plane crash. So better wear your seat belts. Similarly, I take off my shoes during long flights, but make sure to have them on for take-off and landing, in case of evacuation.