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Old Jul 19, 2007, 9:06 pm
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Popular Mechanics: How to Survive a Plane Crash
In the wake of nearly 200 passenger deaths in a Brazilian airliner accident, popular mechanics take an exclusive look at 36 years’ worth of NTSB reports and seating charts. The best way to live through a disaster in the sky? Move to the back of the Airbus.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...e/4219452.html

Seems that those in Coach had the highest survival rate. Would be curious to see this study done worldwide instead of just the limited data available in the US.
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Old Jul 19, 2007, 9:12 pm
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Meh. My strategy is to sit in the exit row.
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Old Jul 19, 2007, 9:15 pm
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Excellent article.

For the safety of others, I hereby volunteer to trade my seat in back for one of those lethal ones up front.
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Old Jul 19, 2007, 9:22 pm
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Just watch re-runs of 24.
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Old Jul 19, 2007, 9:25 pm
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This is actually true. The tail section of the aircraft is the strongest thing on the plane. That's also where the "black boxes" are kept.
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Old Jul 19, 2007, 9:27 pm
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Originally Posted by birdstrike
Excellent article.

For the safety of others, I hereby volunteer to trade my seat in back for one of those lethal ones up front.
I hear you loud and clear. If the plane is going down, take me with it!
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Old Jul 20, 2007, 6:47 am
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That's also where the "black boxes" are kept.
Absolutely NO QUESTION whatsoever that the safest place to be on an airliner is inside the "black box".....

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Old Jul 20, 2007, 6:48 am
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That's the conclusion of an exclusive Popular Mechanics study that examined every commercial jet crash in the United States, since 1971, that had both fatalities and survivors. The raw data from these 20 accidents has been languishing for decades in National Transportation Safety Board files, waiting to be analyzed by anyone curious enough to look and willing to do the statistical drudgework.
Wow........PM really wasted their time. 20 crashes in the last 36 years.........out of how many flights total? 10's of millions? That kind of accident rate hardly seems worth the time and effort to do the research.

I bet bowls of soup have killed more people.
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I will sit where they put me, If it goes down, I'm going with it and will go down screaming like a school girl
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Old Jul 20, 2007, 9:21 am
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Originally Posted by iCorpRoadie
I will sit where they put me, If it goes down, I'm going with it and will go down screaming like a school girl
Sit where they put you? What kind of FTer are you? You'll be sitting in the most comfortable seat available!
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Old Jul 20, 2007, 9:46 am
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Originally Posted by Buster
Sit where they put you? What kind of FTer are you? You'll be sitting in the most comfortable seat available!
They put me up front in First/BizE!!! the alst place I sit is Exit Row!
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If you go through most of the crashes where there were survivors, they were usually seated in the rear of the plane.
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Old Jul 20, 2007, 9:54 am
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Originally Posted by NorcrossFlyer
Wow........PM really wasted their time. 20 crashes in the last 36 years.........out of how many flights total? 10's of millions? That kind of accident rate hardly seems worth the time and effort to do the research.

I bet bowls of soup have killed more people.
It's all for marketing and sales of publications.
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Old Jul 23, 2007, 10:48 pm
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i like aa-flyer-tt's suggestion!
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Old Jul 24, 2007, 8:28 pm
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Originally Posted by NorcrossFlyer
Wow........PM really wasted their time. 20 crashes in the last 36 years.........out of how many flights total? 10's of millions? That kind of accident rate hardly seems worth the time and effort to do the research.

I bet bowls of soup have killed more people.
Don't know about bowls of soup but falling coconuts kill about a hundred people every year.
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