Back seats always safer , never heard of a plane reversing into a mountain !

Watched it dying the week, very interesting, great show.

The cables dropping from overhead seemed to be a major problem if an evacuation was required..

A colleague of mine was a survivor of the Kegworth disaster which was mentioned in the documentary (the BMI flight to Belfast). He was strapped into his crew seat at the very rear door under the tail. This part of the plane broke away an flipped upside down. He woke up about 5 minutes after impact upside down, released himself, fell back into the wreckage and the next thing he knew he was on a road. Never opened a door or anything.

He still had significant injuries and its still with him to this day but shows like this and his own story only highlight just how survivable these things are an why air travel is still the safest form of travel!

Just sit beside the flight recorder box, or even better, get inside, now that’s the safest place on the plane, almost always survives intact :-)

Did it prove that your chances of survival depended on the angle of arrival? Ground breaking stuff indeed.

If I learnt anything from that show it was don’t become a pilot and don’t sit in first class!! Now who wants to pitch in and get tickets for Posh Spice and Jedward??

Really good documentry and a huge amount of knowledge gained.
The flight crew were very shaken when they seen the cockpit they were in just an hour before.

Correction: The plane used only cost £300,000 as it was a very old model that had been mothballed.

Was on Channel 4 on Thursday, decent watch but as all plane crashes are different it didn’t give any sound advice over which seats are safest.

During the week I meant to say

The whole thing was flawed, an old 727 with the engines mounted high up near the tail and clear of the ground as it crashed along the dirt. All the modern planes like the 737 for example all have engines mounted under the wings. Same situation it would burst into flames as the engines were ripped off

Pot luck springs to mind with any of these disasters…

do a hundred and ninety kilometers in your car next time on the motorway, if it goes that fast. that’s the minimum speed a large plane will crash at. there’s nowhere safe stopping dead at that speed.

Very good watch.they said that sittin at the back was a lot safer in this case,the dummies felt g-force less than a bumping car!

word is that Ryan Air has bought whats left of the plane, its in service bewteen Dublin & London every other day.

Probably it is for the best to crash land a plane-if you must-in a desert than on a city……..

can i ask why this article ignores the fact that this programme was co-produced and in fact already aired by channel 4, a channel widely available in the republic, while directing readers to the website of the US version of DISCOVERY?
weird.

The journal app for iphone is rubbish!!

If any part of a plane is safe it is the back

The whole thing was flawed, an old 727 with the engines mounted high up near the tail and clear of the ground as it crashed along the dirt. All the modern planes like the 737 for example all have engines mounted under the wings. Same situation it would burst into flames as the engines were ripped off

The whole thing was flawed, an old 727 with the engines mounted high up near the tail and clear of the ground as it crashed along the dirt. All the modern planes like the 737 for example all have engines mounted under the wings. Same situation it would burst into flames as the engines were ripped off

Wait till o Leary sees this now disposal planes use once and throw it away

The back of the plane is the safest, I have never heard of a plane reversing into a mountain.

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