2006-10-22 15:50:32 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
NO.
Watch "Mythbusters" on Discovery Channel. They ran experiments about falling elevators and the idea that you can "jump up" as it hits and avoid being hurt. They used a crash test dummy, rigged to spring upwards at the moment the falling elevator hit.
The dummy didn't "survive" the fall.
In short, you cannot "jump" in a free fall environment. There is no stable platform from which to push.
If, instead, you try to jump "away" from a plane falling at an angle to earth-- you will continue to travel at 300 mph or more until something stops you. The "falling" won't hurt, the "stopping" will kill ya.
2006-10-22 16:03:23 · answer #1 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would the plane have a parachute?
A person without one has the same chances.
If you jumped out of a tall building just before a plane hits the ground...
2006-10-22 15:57:15 · answer #2 · answered by warmspirited 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm a former Flight Attendant and the Shadow's answer is corrcect. I in simple terms wanted to characteristic that after the plane is pressurized, it extremely is bodily impossible to open the door, no rely how good you're. it may take tremdous rigidity. there is not any way even at a decrease altitude that the doorways ought to be opened so as that persons ought to bounce out. this is in simple terms bodily impossible. additionally, this is actual that maximum injuries happen on landing and take-off so parachutes could be ineffective. it is not so easy using those issues. Even the existence vests, which infinite people have watched the protection demo "1000's of situations" yet in an emergency, people nevertheless mess it up. We could no longer even get people to *go away their baggage at the back of*. Sorry yet it incredibly is so uncomplicated and so considerable yet yet yet another crash video shows those...leaping into the slides with their baggage. as quickly as a guy blocked an entire lane along with his duffle bag in the time of an emergency landing (the place people were killed) and a F/A grabbed it and tossed it aside to enable the others bypass. So enable's provide up making up new products of complicated emergency equipment to positioned on airplanes and start up paying interest to the emergency approaches that are already in place.
2016-12-16 12:30:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You'd still have the same velocity as the plane hitting the ground... but without the planes airframe as protection.
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2006-10-22 15:54:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you will still be going as fast as the plane was when you hit the ground
2006-10-22 15:54:27 · answer #5 · answered by dreson k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, just like as if you hopped before a elevator hit the floor, you would be the second crash a millisecond later.
2006-10-22 15:54:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. At the plane's slowest stall speed and jumping into deep soft snow, maybe. I have seen skiers survive at those speeds.
2006-10-22 15:55:33 · answer #7 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You will still be moving as fast as you were while you were in the plane. Only your frame of reference changed.
2006-10-22 15:54:25 · answer #8 · answered by Jeff M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on whether the baseman or catcher tags you with the ball in his glove.
2006-10-22 15:55:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, safe in the arms of Jesus.
2006-10-22 16:02:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋