Originally Posted by
thegingerman
If you use a pretty loose definition of "crash", sure. That's pretty much what the guy is saying anyway.
1. Plane has gear trouble and the pilot makes a nice belly landing = nearly everyone survives.
2. Plane comes hurtling from the sky and embeds itself in a field = nearly everyone dies.
wow that's sure an interesting way of putting it.....
It's also probably why you only need to wear them on takeoff and landing. For the sake of argument I will exclude embedding oneself into a field from "landing"