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Airplane seatbelts (lemmy.world)
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[-] textik@sh.itjust.works 70 points 1 week ago

If you follow avherald.com for any length of time, you'll learn that 1) the vast majority of aviation incidents are completely benign, and 2) the vast majority of injuries aboard airliners are caused by passengers not wearing their seatbelts. The seatbelts aren't there for the once-a-decade crash; they're there for the once-a-month strong turbulence event, which the airplane itself will barely even notice.

[-] sfbing@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

And in the rare horrific crash, the seat will not remain attached to the floor anyway.

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

In one accident the only one who survived was a girl who stayed strapped into her seat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_Koepcke

Some theorize that staying strapped in saved her life.

[-] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

As many as 14 other passengers were later discovered to have survived the initial crash but died while waiting to be rescued.

Jesus, what shit luck for them...

this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
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