The safest place to sit on a plane?
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the safest place to sit on a plane is in the emergency exit row, directly next to the emergency exits.
ive flown well over 1000 times, and thats what flight attendants have always told me.
ive flown well over 1000 times, and thats what flight attendants have always told me.
milehigh club: member??
nope..i always flew on business, and my lady was never fortunate enough to fly with me to get banged in the bathroom.
ha!
i once got on a flight from montreal to los angeles, and a cat had peed on one of my workshirts....everyone on the plane was wondering where the smell came from.
not really the mile high club, but a funny, short, pointless story nonetheless.
i also got in a roasted duck food fight in the first class cabin of a flight from salt lake city to detroit.
also completely unrelated.
You've got a lot of carbon to offset.
The odds are against you surviving a serious crash wherever you sit.
I think he meant the survival rate in different positions, and I am not sure that is the closest to the exits.
I know in trainwrecks, people in the last cars are much safer then in the first ones. Several times the first 3-4 cars derailed, but the rest of the train stayed on and suffered less damage. Now a train could be hit from behind, so I would say the safest is in the middle...
Maybe there is a similar logic to airplane sitting, although I am not sure how it works...
the exit rows are the safest seats, trust me on this one.
why, survived a plane crash?
i would wager that i have more plane-hours logged than every member put together.....so i know a bit about plane travel.
but you don't which seats are the safest untill you've survived a crash, and even then it would be down to shear luck, not the position of the seats.
it's all conjecture really.
so how come you've racked up so many airmiles?
you wanna use some of that razor sharp wit on those girls kiddo.
There are onground collisions where the entire left or right row get decapitated (or bisected, depending on how tall you are) by the wing of an oncoming aircraft.
Imagine the little girl sitting between her parents, when, in a spray of oxidizing aluminum, an aircraft wing shreds through the cabin decapitating both her parents and spraying her in blood and sparks.
Pretty fucking sweet.
Imagine the little girl sitting between her parents, when, in a spray of oxidizing aluminum, an aircraft wing shreds through the cabin decapitating both her parents and spraying her in blood and sparks.
Pretty fucking sweet.
Fraggle Rocker
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I prefer aisle seating because it's less cramped. I like to get up and walk around once an hour. I hate window seats because I'm tall from the waist up and my head hits the bulkhead. I like to sit near the front because I'll get off the plane several minutes earlier than the people in back. Of course that only matters if you have no checked baggage to wait for. Exit rows have more leg room and are more comfortable. The seats right in front of them are awful because they don't recline. I don't like being on the sunny side because it makes it hard to read. I don't like being over the wing because it's noisier and you can't see anything.
Save a good book you've been wanting to read, it will make the time fly by. You have to be desperate to watch a movie on an airplane, they keep interrupting them with stupid comments and they get the special G-rated versions that are made for Saudi Arabia. Some of the headphone music channels are okay but again it's all G-rated.
From the perspective of safety... Just remember that you are VASTLY more likely to die in your car on this one trip to the airport than you are in all the flights you will take in your entire life.
In fact, the energy you are spending right this minute thinking about airline safety would be much better invested in thinking about auto safety. Can you reduce your annual mileage? Do more of your driving on freeways and less on streets with opposing and cross traffic? Upgrade to a safer car? Not ride with drivers with mediocre skills? Give up dangerous habits like eating or telephoning while you're driving? Never drink within four hours of driving? Get better tires? Have your suspension and brakes checked and made perfect? Have your vision tested? Take a class for professional drivers to learn how to react quickly and expertly if your car skids or is hit by another car? Convince your state government to require truck driving licenses for SUVs?
Don't worry about dying in an airliner crash. It is the same order of magnitude as the risk of being killed by lightning or a bee sting and I'll bet you never even think about those things.
Well, at least not until now.
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Or getting killed by a terrorist.