I watched that recreation of the scenario and the audio of that crash where the pilot had his kids in the cockpit and the older kid accidentally messed with something and the G forces made it so the pilots couldn’t fix the situation before the place lost too much altitude and crashed. Now I understand why people who aren’t seatbelted would die from such a crash, but Im just wondering what kills all the other passengers?
Are their insides crushed to death by impact with the seatbelt? Are their brains instantly nullified by hitting the inside of their skulls to forcibly?
And, is it also the same reason why train derailments are often equally deadly? Because there too… Thomas the tank engine stories make it look like a derailing is just a whoops! Better call Gordon! kinda situation…. But in the news it seems like all the passengers often get killed in those scenarios too…
What’s the deal?
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Like other people have pointed out, every plane crash is different. But lets look at your example of the person who was dutifully seatbelted in when the plane made impact with the ground.
Assuming we have some kind of indestructible plane that doesn’t tear itself to pieces on impact and rather than normal seat belts, we give the passengers a 5 point harness, it comes down to something pretty simple. How quickly their brain stops moving.
If the plane lawn darts into the ground and they go from cruising speed ~500mph to zero in fractions of a second, the brain gets crushed against the skull and it’s instant death. But if we have a two mile long grass field and the pilot is able to pully a Sully and guide the plane to bumpy but other wise safe landing where the plane can decelerate normally, then everyone’s fine.
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