Plane crash survival hypothesis?

Question

If you were on a plane going down, not taking into account wind and such, lets say you were standing on top of it, and thusly would be falling at the same speed. If you jumped upwards like two feet before it crashed, not taking into account flames and such, would you live? It seems sorta like you could, cause the world is constantly spinning, and it's the same sort of idea--you take ont eh energy and movement of the larger object you're on, but when you jump you seperate yourself from it and would start over--two feet above ground.
Ideas?

Answer 1

It would not save you because if you are falling fast enough to get killed when you land, then you are falling WAY faster than you can jump. For example, if you jump as hard as you can and can jump 2 meters high, then you have jumped at a little more than 6 meters per second. That is about 14 miles per hour. Now say the crashing airplane is falling at 100 miles per hour. That 14 mile per hour jump from the 100 mile per hour falling airplane results in you still falling at 86 miles per hour. Probably enough to still kill you. Now realize that it isn't the fall that kills you in an airplane crash, it is the forward speed. An airliner is flying at least 150 miles per hour when it lands and may be going 500 miles per hour if it is out of control. So it is like crashing in a car at between 150 and 500 miles per hour, with maybe a comparatively gentle additional fall to top it all off.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You just answered yourself when you said that both you and the plane are falling at the same rate. Even if you jump two feet up from the plane, gravity pulls all falling bodies toward the earth at the same rate.

Unfortunately, you wouldn't live.

Answer 4

Totally flawed dude.
The world is spining, but it's all relative.
You're still falling as fast as the plan when you jump up, and when you land a split second afterward.

That's like saying could I stand on a couch that's dropped from the 35th floor of a building, then jump off it right before it hits the ground....not gonna happen.

Answer 5

i think of based on the crash it could shop your existence. i at present examine a pair of learn that confirmed how few human beings incredibly pay attention to the flight attendants' risk-free practices presentation and/or examine the risk-free practices enjoying cards. in assessment with study on aircraft crashes the place some passengers survived and a few perished, it substitute into concluded that passengers who pay attention to the risk-free practices presentation and examine their risk-free practices enjoying cards are lots greater probable to stay to tell the story a aircraft crash as they seem to be a million) greater arranged, and a pair of) greater probable to maintain on with training in an emergency challenge. The brace place is clearly a shown approach of reducing actual harm/dying in the time of an emergency, in any different case it does not be used. At no time have I ever heard any member of a flight group say that it substitute right into a one hundred% assured approach of surviving a aircraft crash, despite if it gives you of undertaking. There at the instant are not any ensures in an emergency like that, yet while it have been me, i may be listening to the those that do this for a residing instead of being the pessimist staring out the window saying, "Oh, i'm not likely to brace, i'll die besides."

Answer 6

if the world is rotating at say....180mph and you are flying at 200. you still have 20 miles per hour of velocity to overcome. Remember that the plane has to be going faster than the earth is rotating or else it would be essentially going backwards.....how about this.....how fast does a car need to be traveling for you to "jump" over it from a standing jump?

Answer 7

Well I would say that you would be smashed to 1000 pieces and die. Even if you did jump you would still have the force of the plane falling. Even if you left contact with the plane. This is just my hunch and it is based on what I know from science class.

Answer 8

You would only reduce your downward velocity by the speed that you jumped up and away. The velocity would still be greater than you can withstand when you land.

Answer 9

You're ignoring so many variables that such a claim is preposterous.

Answer 10

although your jump upwards work counteract some of the downward direction you were traveling, you probably couldn't jump hard enough to slow yourself down ENOUGH to stop you from being crushed.