I have heard that if you tense or brace your body before a car accident you are more likely to be injured. Hence why drunk drivers often walk away unharmed because they just sort of flop around instead. So why is it that we are supposed to brace for impact?
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Plane crashes and car crashes are very different from each other.
In a car crash you are de/accelerating much more abruptly . In a plane crash you stop over a much longer period of time due to the planes massive inertia and the fact that the chunk of plane in front of you will absorb a lot of the energy.(unless you are sitting in the pilots seat and are crashing at a 90deg angle to the floor lol)
The brace position in plane crashes is designed to prevent your neck from experiencing whiplash and to protect your head from debris.
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