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Do you think you'd survive a plane crash?

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  • 02-01-2013 12:15am
    #1
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭


    Let's say everyone is injured in a severe plane crash and only 50% of the passengers manage to survive.

    Everyone is strapped into their seats and ready to land (you're a passenger don't forget).

    Everyone survives the up to the point of crash landing (nobody dies from heart attacks etc)

    The plane crash lands on a runway.

    Do you think you'd survive?

    Do you think you'd survive a plane crash? 59 votes

    Yes, I would probably survive.
    0% 0 votes
    No, I'd probably die.
    100% 59 votes


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    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    How are you getting wifi in a crashed plane, Chuck? Can't be Ryanair anyway.


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    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    It's 50/50 really

    There's an app for that.


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    #4
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    If I was among the 50% that survived then yes.


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    cantdecide
    Registered Users Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    I'd say 50/50

    EDIT: I'm not the fastest sarky bollix tonight :D


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    #6
    Zyzz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    Id probably do what Bane did in the Dark Knight Rises to save myself..


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    #7
    Vicar in a tutu
    Registered Users Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    How would I know?!:o


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    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Oh come on guys. Do you think you'd be able to escape the wreckage, fires etc

    Work with me goddamit. :mad:


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    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    As I'd be sitting up front probably not unfortunately.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Confab wrote: »
    How are you getting wifi in a crashed plane, Chuck? Can't be Ryanair anyway.

    they have it on delta :D


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    #11
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Pilotdude5 wrote: »
    As I'd be sitting up front probably not unfortunately.

    You're a passenger don't forget. ;)


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    cantdecide
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    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Oh come on guys. Do you think you'd be able to escape the wreckage, fires etc

    Work with me goddamit. :mad:

    Leave us alone, we're trying to survive a flaming crash site if we haven't been killed and here you are pressurising us. That's nice that is.


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    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Im confident that if I survived the impact and was conscious, I would be able to use my wits and initiative to make my way to safety. Once that happens, it's a case of going back for the others and getting them to safety.


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    Where To
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    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Let's say everyone is injured in a severe plane crash and only 50% of the passengers manage to survive.

    Do you think you'd survive?
    cjuch, I am very very very drunk but even I know this is a stupid ceistion?

    Are you alright Mucker? I'd savw you from the bad plane with my awesomeness :)


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    #15
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Flip a coin. Theirs your answer.

    Coin says no.


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    #16
    foxinsox
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    Knowing my luck, I'd probably be on the loo!

    So bummer, probably wouldn't survive.


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    Boombastic
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    It depends did the plane hit something head on or did it reverse in to it?


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    [Deleted User]
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    Boombastic wrote: »
    It depends did the plane hit something head on or did it reverse in to it?

    It wasn't parallel parking. It fell out of the feckin sky!


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    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    I'd probably be killed in the massive fireball cause I'd be busy looting the little carts to get all the miniature's of Johnny Walkers....:mad:


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    #20
    donvito99
    Registered Users Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    As I'd be flying Ryanair, front or back, and not in the exit-rows or at the very front, I'd probably die in the aisle, blocked by people grabbing their bags.


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    #21
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    foxinsox wrote: »
    Knowing my luck, I'd probably be on the loo!

    So bummer, probably wouldn't survive.

    I've changed the OP to remove that variable specially for you fox. ;)


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    Extinction
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    It wasn't parallel parking. It fell out of the feckin sky!

    Did it fall on land or sea cause I cant swim


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    #23
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    I'd probably die of a heart attack before the plane hit the ground. So NO, the plane crash would'nt kill me, the knowledge that it was about to happen would......


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    charlemont
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    Hopefully I'd have a heart attack before the impact.


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    #25
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Boombastic wrote: »
    It depends did the plane hit something head on or did it reverse in to it?

    Planes flying in reverse? :confused:


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    Where To
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    Where To wrote: »
    cjuch, I am very very very drunk but even I know this is a stupid ceistion?

    Are you alright Mucker? I'd savw you from the bad plane with my awesomeness :)
    I got thanked by pilotduke, scary stuff. Hey pilotdude baby, will you fly me to the dancelappers club? :)


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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,060 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    What kind of plane?

    If it was a large commercial flight then it's unlikely that 50% would survive. If the crash is bad enough to kill half of the people on board then in practice it'd probably kill way more than that.


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    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    You're a passenger don't forget. ;)

    Ah yes just saw that. Nah wouldn't survive, no one survives. Flying is very dangerous and all of ye reading this should never fly again!!!

    The Aerospace industry has been trying to silence me for years!


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    [Deleted User]
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    Extinction wrote: »
    Did it fall on land or sea cause I cant swim

    I don't think you'll be able to walk either after this :pac:


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    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,431 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Stealth Recce wrote: »
    Im confident that if I survived the impact and was conscious, I would be able to use my wits and initiative to make my way to safety. Once that happens, it's a case of going back for the others and getting them to safety.

    You'd probably be better off saving people as you exited the plane, in one swoop.

    Leaving the disaster site only to go back in again is a bit foolish and kind of negates leaving it in the first place. Especially with fuel tanks which are on the verge of exploding.


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    #31
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    rainbowdrop wrote: »
    I'd probably die of a heart attack before.....
    charlemont wrote: »
    Hopefully I'd have a heart attack before....

    OP changed to remove another variable. :o


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