On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:40:00PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> William Chops Westfield wrote:
> 
> > (I've always wondered whether if you're in a crashing plane, you'd
> > have a better chance of survival if you jumped out.  I mean, cliff
> > divers and parachutists in free fall reach similar terminal velocities,
> > and most of the cliff divers survive...  It ALMOST seems like with
> > suitable training you ought to be able to leap from a plane and
> > AIM for something soft...)
> 
> Went to an FAA Safety Seminar titled "How to Crash an Airplane and 
> Survive" that discussed doing exactly what you recommend... with the 
> whole aircraft.
> 
> Got a choice of a nice soft stand of aspen trees or a forest of large 
> pines, and a mountain flying emergency "landing" coming up?  If you 
> don't panic and actually CHOOSE what you're going to hit, you stand a 
> much larger chance of surviving it.
> 
> Thus the well-worn adage: Fly it until all the parts stop moving!

So is the fuselage relative to the ground considered a part?

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