Originally Posted by cigarman
If you love your child, you should NEVER let them ride on your lap. Is your child's life only worth the savings for one plane ticket? You would pay all the money in the world to get them back if they were killed in turbulance or a crash. Remember souix falls and UA? Most people survived the crash. None or the lap babies did. They become missles. You cannot hold onto the in a crash or more commonly, severe turblance, the physics are to much. If you can afford to go to aruba, you should be able to afford to protect your child.
Your statement is not true.
"One of the survivors started climbing out of the aircraft and heard a baby crying; he went back inside, found the baby in an overhead bin where she had been tossed, took her out of the aircraft and brought her to her family that had been driven out by the thick smoke."
That is a quote from Cap'n Hynes...I couldn't find the descrption, but I recall that a lap child had been separated from her parents, and upon impact "launched" into an overhead bin, so I did a yahoo seach and sure enough, it happened. I recall the child was scratch free.
"The FAA estimated that only about five aeroplane
crash deaths could be prevented over 10 years by
adopting universal child restraint on aeroplanes.14 On
the other hand, because the additional cost of an aeroplane
ticket for a child is likely to lead some families to
drive rather than to fly, the FAA estimated the regulation
would cause an increase of about 87 deaths over
10 years, due to road deaths resulting from diversion to
travel by car."
This statistic can be found
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/repri.../7429/1424.pdf
and is from an article titled "The power of stories over statistics" written by Prof Thomas Newman, a professor of Epidemiology, biostatistics, and pediatrics at the Univ of Cali, San Fran. The study was done AFTER both Sioux City, and another incident a year later where a lap child had died, was done by the FAA, and presented to Congress.
Basicly, Jan Lohr, a FA on that aircraft told very a very emotional, powerful story that graphicly illistrated the need for a 2nd seat for an infant. She went on a PR tour for this point, as she believed strongly, but her only evidence, was emotive, not empirical.
This isn't to argue that a seated child is worse or better off than a lap child, just to clarify an incorrect post.
Maybe you were refering to the fictional movie with Rosie Perez, where she lost her child?
Statistics over stories I say.