Sounds 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 at

Sounds 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...