why is the back of the plane the safest in a crash?

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Is it because the plane will mostly hit nose first on the ground?
Has it ever been a case where people in front died/suffered injuries and the people in the back were fine? Is the back sturdier because it needs to withstand the force of the tail elevators?

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Channel 4 in the UK did a program called [The Plane Crash](https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-plane-crash). They crashed a plane and a bunch of experts went through the crash site and investigated all kinds of neat metrics like what brace position works best and where you should sit to most likely survive.

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