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> The hilarious thing is that the government investigation called it a "survivable accident" because no one happened to be seated in the row that it shot throug
by adolph 4y ago
> The hilarious thing is that the government investigation called it a "survivable accident" because no one happened to be seated in the row that it shot through.
No, that’s not why. See FAA definition below.
Survivable Accident - an accident in which the cockpit and/or structure remains relatively intact and the forces experienced by the occupants did not exceed or should not have exceeded the survivable limits of human G-tolerance. Such an accident is classified as survivable even if some or all occupants were fatally injured. (NOTE: the investigator makes his or her greatest contribution to air safety by documenting the reasons why aircraft occupants were fatally or seriously injured in survivable accidents.)
https://www.faa.gov/documentlibrary/media/order/8020.11c_.pdf https://www.faa.gov/documentlibrary/media/order/8020.11c_.pd...
- buildsjets 4y agoTrust me, if that propeller had hit someone in the head, they would have experienced forces that would have exceeded the survivable limits of human G-tolerance.
- KMag 4y agoIn other words, a survivable accident is approximately an accident in which one or more occupants could have theoretically survived, even if in fact they all died. One or more survivors would seem to prove the accident was survivable.
- BizarroLand 4y agoSince in enough quantities or the lack thereof everything is lethal, where does the threshold land? I'm sure some people have survived explosions, I know of the one woman who fell out of a plane without a parachute and survived it, so falling off the empire state building is a survivable incident, right?
- KMag 4y agoThey mention limits on acceleration, etc. I presume there's a standard table somewhere. I'm not sure if they use median survivablility or some higher quantile.