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On 2005-06-11, George Patterson wrote:
I remember a thread a year or more back in which this technique was discussed. A few posts claimed (and, IIRC, proof was presented) that stalling an aircraft into the trees would usually result in such a strong decelleration force when you hit that compression of the spine would result. This would frequently produce paralysis or death. We had an aviation doctor come to our flying club for one of our monthly safety meetings. His talk was basically how to properly crash a plane. The salient points are that the body (and the restraint systems) are extremely well equipped to take enormous momentary decelerations in the normal direction of travel, but very poorly equipped to take side loadings or loadings from underneath. You can survive momentary decelerations over 100G if you're going forwards, but going sideways or down, only a tiny fraction of that. Sideways in particular, what happens is that rescuers get to the crash scene to find a seemingly unscathed but very dead person - the heart and other organs can get torn from their 'mountings' in that direction (which is very bad juju) and the person has died from internal injuries. From what I've seen, I'm firmly convinced that so long as the angle of arrival isn't too steep and I keep going forwards until everything stops, I've got a decent chance of escaping from a really bad day. Keep flying it until you're done crashing was the lesson. -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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