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Do you think you'd survive a plane crash?

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    #62
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    Boombastic wrote: »
    Well it'd make a difference as I always sit at the back. If it fell from the sky, I'd survive and I'd have no problem eating the whole lot of ye:D

    Your some fast eater.


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    #63
    Where To
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    I voted I would live :)


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    #64
    PingO_O
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    Where To wrote: »
    I voted I would live :)

    You cocky bastard


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    #65
    Antar Bolaeisk
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    Is the plane on a treadmill?


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    #66
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    Where To wrote: »
    I voted I would live :)


    you lied, but I love the posiflyability.


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    #67
    Boombastic
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    Where To wrote: »
    I voted I would live :)

    Alive or not, I'd still eat you if I was peckish:D


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    #68
    Where To
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    3ndahalfof6 wrote: »


    you lied, but I love the posiflyability.
    I like your tinkering :)


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    #69
    Where To
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    Boombastic wrote: »

    Alive or not, I'd still eat you if I was peckish:D
    Oooh matrion!!!!


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    #70
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,226 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Don't bother with seatbelts as the plane goes down. Stand in the aisle. Keep an eye out the window, and just as the plane is about to hit the ground, jump.
    Then stroll out of the plane and enjoy the rest of your holiday :cool:


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    #71
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Where To wrote: »
    I like your tinkering :)
    Steady now:D You know the rules..


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    #72
    The Dagda
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    Sitec wrote: »
    Yeah I understand that, but the OP said "50% chance of survival", the amount of physics and luck make it a stupid question in fairness!

    So it's the amount of physics and luck that make it a stupid question?! I was wondering, so thank god there was a clever chap, like yourself, to clear that up...


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    #73
    Boombastic
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    Where To wrote: »
    Oooh matrion!!!!

    calm down, calm down I'd have to survive the plane crash first


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    #74
    Where To
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    Pottler wrote: »
    Steady now:D You know the rules..
    Yep:) must no post while in Newcastle on the piss. I'm fairly sure no one has noticed I is drunk though, keep it it under your hat pottler baby:)


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    #75
    PingO_O
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    Cienciano wrote: »
    Don't bother with seatbelts as the plane goes down. Stand in the aisle. Keep an eye out the window, and just as the plane is about to hit the ground, jump.
    Then stroll out of the plane and enjoy the rest of your holiday :cool:

    Good god man you've solved it!! :D


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    #76
    Boombastic
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    Cienciano wrote: »
    Don't bother with seatbelts as the plane goes down. Stand in the aisle. Keep an eye out the window, and just as the plane is about to hit the ground, jump.
    Then stroll out of the plane and enjoy the rest of your holiday :cool:

    or set your watch an hour slow;)


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    #77
    javagal
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    Just asked my magic 8 ball if I would die.

    It said 'outlook not so good'

    I don't know whether that's good or bad!


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    #78
    kfallon
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    javagal wrote: »
    Just asked my magic 8 ball if I would die.

    It said 'outlook not so good'

    I don't know whether that's good or bad!

    I asked my magic 8 ball the same and it said, "Are you still fooking alive???" :eek:


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    #79
    Sitec
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    The Dagda wrote: »
    So it's the amount of physics and luck that make it a stupid question?! I was wondering, so thank god there was a clever chap, like yourself, to clear that up...

    Is that an attempt at humor?


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    #80
    The Dagda
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    Sitec wrote: »
    Is that an attempt at humor?

    Is that?


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    #81
    Boombastic
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    Isn't it plane obvious if it is or not?


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    #82
    o1s1n
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    Stealth Recce wrote: »
    Don't know about that dude. Depends entirely on wreckage area and location.

    The crash site would be manic. Confusion, terror, disorientation and limited visibility are all against you. "Scene safety" goes out the window at that atage.

    Tbh, if you start freeing people from seats while you are frantically looking for an exit route you are compounding the problem. You have no idea which way you are leading people or to where you are leading them. This part is crucial as you either save everyone or potentiall kill everyone.

    Find a way out first, pick a suitable location for casevac, return to crash site and get survivors out.

    You're forgetting one thing though, the fuel tanks are a ticking time bomb.

    So you're on the way out of the plane, people screaming for help, there's one person in particular who catches your eye through the acrid smoke, a young mother with her child next to her.

    'help us please!! I can't get my child's belt open!! - but no, you push on and out to find a safe spot.

    You find a suitable location, turn back to help survivors, and with that, both fuel tanks go, a mighty fireball obliterating every survivor still left on the plane.

    If only you'd opened that one seatbelt... :pac:


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    #83
    Rayne Wooney
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    Can you bring your own parachute on a plane?

    Disguise it as hand luggage just in case


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    #84
    Boombastic
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    Rayne Wooney wrote: »
    Can you bring your own parachute on a plane?

    Disguise it as hand luggage just in case

    As carry on or cargo?


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    #85
    [Deleted User]
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    Boombastic wrote: »
    As carry on or cargo?

    be a bit of a nightmare having to wait for it to come out on the baggage belt wouldn't it.


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    #86
    The Dagda
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    Rayne Wooney wrote: »
    Can you bring your own parachute on a plane?

    Disguise it as hand luggage just in case

    Wouldn't be much good in the scenario described in the OP, although I suppose you could use it as a pillow/cushion?...


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    #87
    Rayne Wooney
    Registered Users Posts: 14,136 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    Boombastic wrote: »

    As carry on or cargo?

    Carry on, just don't tell anyone

    Then if something goes wrong just jump out the back door

    I'm surprised Ryanair haven't taken advantage of this yet, stock up on them on planes, then if something goes wrong sell them for 10 grand a chute to passengers


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    #88
    Peregrine
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    It's impossible to answer. In aviation every little detail can change the outcome of a crash. Even the amount of liquor on board the plane.


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    #89
    Boombastic
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    Rayne Wooney wrote: »
    Carry on, just don't tell anyone

    Then if something goes wrong just jump out the back door

    .........................

    Head for the front one if it reversed in to something;)






    Plane crashes on runway? At what height does it start to fall out of the sky


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    #90
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,432 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Rayne Wooney wrote: »
    Carry on, just don't tell anyone

    Then if something goes wrong just jump out the back door

    I'm surprised Ryanair haven't taken advantage of this yet, stock up on them on planes, then if something goes wrong sell them for 10 grand a chute to passengers

    To jump out of a plane safely you need to have good conditions. Usually if a plane is going to crash, conditions aren't exactly great.

    Chances are you'd be pinned to your seat and unable to get out of it. If you were, the plane would probably be going too fast/too high anyway and you'd die when you jumped out. And that's if you could convince the cabin staff to open the door.


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    #91
    Pottler
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    o1s1n wrote: »
    To jump out of a plane safely you need to have good conditions. Usually if a plane is going to crash, conditions aren't exactly great.

    Chances are you'd be pinned to your seat and unable to get out of it. If you were, the plane would probably be going too fast/too high anyway and you'd die when you jumped out. And that's if you could convince the cabin staff to open the door.
    Or convince someone like me not to rob the parachute off you.:D By the time you jumped, you'd probably have 10 people clinging to your legs anyway, so you'd better get a big chute.:)


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