I’m sure everyone knows that the back of an aircraft is safer in a crash, but does the same thing apply for jets like CRJs and 717s? If you think about it, the engines are in the back, so if you sit in the back, wouldn’t you have a more likely chance of getting killed by the fuel tank exploding?
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Ohh boy…
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What? What are u trying to say? :)
There are no safe seats on a plane. Your plane could crash tail, nose or wing first. To me the percentages are BS .
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But if there´s a fire, you´re pretty much dead.
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How about in Asian flight 214, when the 777-200ER crashed at KSFO and the tail snapped off and two people (I think) at the back died :/
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The reason why the back is generally safer is because the rear normally breaks apart from the rest of the plane no other reason
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And if it crashes against the water, everybody drowns first.
I was under the impression around the wing area offered the greatest structural integrity, in a forced stable non runway landing, cockpit and first few rows break off, wings crumple upward and leave the centre section and then separates from the tail. If a pilot knows he is going to make an emergency forced landing he will dump fuel to reduce the risk of fire. Airliners are designed to separate in a specific way.
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I don’t think airliners are supposed to separate at all.
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That’s where you are totally wrong, they are designed with a similar process to cars, to crumple in a specific way to dissipate energy. The BA 777 that landed short at Heathrow saved the lives of passengers by deforming as planned.
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Not so sure the landing gear penetrating the wings is something planned.
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Absolutely designed my friend. Struggling to find the source but there is an interview out there with a Boeing/777 engineer explaining its accident procedure.
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The safest seats in the aircraft are the cockpit seats.
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Apart from the fact the pilots often die??
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Every seat is as safe as the others as crashes are very, very unlikely.
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Might want to rethink :p
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