Would I freeze to death? (Since I know it’s cold high up in the air)
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If by some miracle you were able to hold on for any period if time, once commercial jets are to altitude you’re looking at 500+mph, often -50°f, and not enough air to breathe.
I watched a documentary on a fighter pilot who had to eject at about double those speeds and he said the air was like hitting concrete. His co-pilot was decapitated the second they hit the airstream. Most of his bones were broken by the air. Needless to say, at anything north of a few hundred miles per hour even in the best conditions I don’t think the human body could handle holding on.
1.You won’t be able to breathe.
2.You will die of hypothermia.
3.Your arms will come off(if you can even keep your fingers closed on the wing all the time).
4.Air drag might well peel your skin off(aeroplanes are insanely fast,you know).
An average commercial plane goes at 175 km/h,if we take that into the math together with the average human strenght,you would fall before that
Edit:Typo
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