Info like this could save your life.
(, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 11:06, Reply)
was there to keep your teeth near your body so they can identify your charred remains....
rather than to improve your chances of survival.
is that true d'ya fink?
(, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 11:16, Reply)
to alleviate suffering
(, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 11:17, Reply)
I was put a post in on talk about this about a year ago but the general consensus was that it was a myth.
(, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 11:18, Reply)
The brace position was invented years ago when there was far more space in planes IMO - now try to get into the brace position on an EasyJet flight ... it's a physical impossibility (for me anyway)
(, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 11:24, Reply)
then it's easier to get off if the plane crashes
(, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 11:45, Reply)
Have they changed at all in the last ten years?
Does "a big bucket of animal fat" still count as hand luggage?
(, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 13:20, Reply)
Bracing in event of a wheels up, or off runway landing, means that everyone keeps in their seats, and protects face and limbs from copping a bashing and preventing injury. The quick death thing is just a grim urban legend.
(, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 11:24, Reply)
and you calm down....
(, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 11:28, Reply)
www.snopes.com/travel/airline/brace.asp
Although I sometimes question Snopes itself.
(, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 11:45, Reply)
would be to bring my legs up to my chest so they don't get sliced off....
hahaha
one plane journey I went on was playing Rosemary's baby as the in flight movie.
My mate was on a plane to LA during the riots and watched a news report on the plane about how LA was burning and there was a mad gunman on the lose in LAX. She asumed that they would divert the plane - they didn't.
(, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 12:04, Reply)
waiting for a delayed work flight, time for a beer, that came on, Good choice, what next says dave, Chantilly lace by the big bopper? Rave on,buddy holly? I can`t remember all the bands that had been in crashes we came up with. I had to cry foul at Stevia Ray Vaughn as that was a helicopter!
(, Wed 22 Jul 2009, 12:22, Reply)