Safest Seat on a Plane, Or How to Survive a Crash

Ant writes "Popular Mechanics shares a short article on an exclusive look at 36 years' worth of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports and seating charts to determine the best way to live through a disaster in the sky. Move to the back of the Airbus."

It's safer in the back and...

[Anonymous Coward]

you're by the bathrooms and you can watch any hottie walk back to her seat.

Sit in the rear

[Anonymous Coward]

Rarely does an airplane back into the side of a mountain.

Re:Sit in the rear

[kryten_nl]

Rarely does an airplane back into the side of a mountain.

Because the mountains move aside when they hear that beeping sound and see the flashing lights?

Reminds me of...

[rundstykke]

..an entertaining read I bumped into a couple of months back, describing how to survive a freefall from 35'000 feet...

http://www.greenharbor.com/fffolder/carkeet.html [greenharbor.com]


/Rundstykke

Front or back seat of a car

[antifoidulus]

provided you aren't driving. That is much more important question. Or even better yet, why in the hell are SUVs legal? An ever better question that can save many more lives!

Re:What are the odds?

[kryten_nl]

Therefore, a far more useful article would be "How to survive driving off a seaside cliff into the ocean."

Install wings on your car?

Not on Oceanic 815...

[Anonymous Coward]

... where all but one of the survivors from the tail section so far as been kidnapped or murdered.

Is it expensive

[WormholeFiend]

to get a seat inside the black box?

Best way to survice a crash...

[niceone]

...just reboot and you should be fine.

excellent

[JustNiz]

All those arrogant dicks in first class get to die first.

How's this for irony?

[Anonymous Coward]

So, the back of the plane is safest, and that's where they put the smokers?

You'd think they'd put those who want to commit slow suicide in the nose or something, just to help them speed things along.

Re:What are the odds?

[pintpusher]

Therefore, a far more useful article would be "How to survive driving off a seaside cliff into the ocean."

Install wings on your car?

and then climb to the back seat on the way down...

Re:What are the odds?

[joseph449008]

No, I think it has to do with crashing down from about an altitude of 30,000 feet.

Re:Reminds me of...

[Elemenope]

It's funny. Laugh.

Don't sit in the back!

[Per Wigren]

That's where the snakes are!

First Class

[15Bit]

As a regular flier in cattle-class, i'd just like to say that its nice to see first class passengers getting the preferential treatment they deserve. First on, first off and first into the mountainside...

I want to die like my grandfather...

[microcars]

peacefully in his sleep

not like the passengers in his car, screaming and yelling

The safest seat in a crash

[highlander76]

The safest seat in a crash is probably a window seat so God can better hear your pleas for him to save you.

I disagree...

[keytohwy]

On Lost, the ones towards the back were the first to be picked off by "the others." Only the front seats for me!

Re:Anti-EU much ?

[dubbayu_d_40]

C'est honky - it's a noir thing.

Oh like that will work...

[reality-bytes]

If you're really worried about a plane crash, I suggest staying home. Maybe don't get out of bed at all.

Okay, so it would work up to a point. The 'point' being the airliner that crashes into your house.

Re:It's safer in the back and...

[ruiner13]

you're by the bathrooms and you can watch any hottie walk back to her seat.

Yeah, and you can also smell the ripe dookie she just dropped in the can as she saunters on down the aisle.

Re:Sit in the rear

[Anonymous Coward]

ROTFLMAOWSIABLOL!

My dad told me about your dad telling you that 10 years ago!

Re:If there's one bit of mysticism I believe..

[pipingguy]

Is it still legal to bring toast and butter on a plane?

Re:It's safer in the back and...

[kharchenko]

here's [ninjapants.org] an obligatory feedback on the seat you're suggesting :)

Re:What are the odds?

[Poromenos1]

That does it. I'm getting my heart nailed in place!

Re:It's safer in the back and...

[Sponge Bath]

During the crash you will be covered with turds and blue water before being incinerated with jet fuel. Which is about as dignified as the rest of air travel these days.

Re:What are the odds?

[Poromenos1]

Just about no airplane crashes from that height.

That's true, most airplanes crash on the ground.

Re:excellent

[Anonymous Coward]

So, sitting in the back, I get to die laughing. Cool.

Comfort

[felipekk]

From TFA: "So when the "experts" tell you it doesn't matter where you sit, have a chuckle and head for the back of the plane. And once your seatbelt is firmly fastened, relax: There's been just one fatal jet crash in the U.S. in the last five-plus years."

Thats good to know, specially when I live in Brazil.

Re:What are the odds?

[Silver Gryphon]

Already got mine well padded. Papa John's, Pizza Hut, Mickey D's...

Re:What are the odds?

[Alsee]

the aorta ruptures and you die of a cardiac tamponade

Speaking as a guy, tamponade sounds like a really embarrassing way to die.

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/If/ you die?

[ishmaelflood]

I've got some bad news for you, unless you are a bacterium. It is WHEN you die, not IF.

Re:What are the odds?

[dw604]

This could be solved if they used one giant parachute to help the entire plane float to the ground...

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Chivalry has not died

[icepick72]

All of a sudden chivalry makes a comeback as men everywhere offer their mother-in-laws the more comfortable front seats of the plane.

Re:It's safer in the back and...

[Climate Shill]

it gives a figure that's more misleading because YOU SPEND LESS TIME IN THE AIR.

Where did you get the idea that I spend more time in cars than in the air ?

Re:Best way to survice a crash...

[tepples]

...just reboot and you should be fine.

Yeah, if you're Hindu [wikipedia.org].

Re:/If/ you die?

[hobo sapiens]

If you are ever in a plane and a crash is imminent, the best position for you is this: put your head between your knees, hold tight...and kiss your ass goodbye.

Re:No, this is pathetic

[Anonymous Coward]

Yup, because there's no activity that is bad for you that people still partake in, bar smoking. Drinking, why that's just a big bottle of multivitamin!