Plane crash?

Question

My friend thinks he could survive a plane crash if he waited by the door and jumped out at the last second.If he doesnt shut up about it im going to kill myself,please help me explain to him just how stupid this is

Answer 1

This is your average physics question. Humor him, assume he can stand by the door and jump clear of the jet. If the jet is crashing at 100 miles an hour, he is also heading 100 miles an hour toward the ground. When he jumps and pushes away from the plane at 5 miles an hour, he is now going 100-5 or 95 miles per hour toward the ground. Plus he is now on his own - hits the ground with skin and skull and no seat-belt and plane walls. But that's not all, gravity will slow him down too. Lucky the 95 miles per hour he is traveling wont give it much time to take effect, but if jumping from a certain distance, gravity will pull on his -5 miles per hour, and turn it back to +5 miles per hour (height he jumped up = height he falls down) so gravity equals it out and he would hit at 100 miles per hour anyway.

This same illogical theory does not even work in a slower, free falling elevator.

Answer 2

This may not really help but tell him that it is the flight attendants that wait by the door and jump out the last second. They won't jump out before passengers. The flight attendants will probably just push your friend out if he waits till the last second. If there was a fire and he waited till the last second he willt be covered with burns and scars, breathe in smoke, and probably some pernament damages that will limit his activities. Does he want to spend the rest of his life like that?

Answer 3

ASK him how he could know that the plane would crash? Then which exactly the last second he is talking about? and which door?
In accident there will never be the last second. Then, in what altitude he prefered to jump? 3000 - 4000? or 1000?
In what type of flight he would like to jump?
Or has he got any certification to try sky diving or something a like?
Next time, ask him to take the certification or piloting a military jet or be a flight attendant. Then he can jumped. I would rather ask where is your certificate or reference then you may jump.. if without, be silent.

Answer 4

In the USA on my own approximately 35,000 humans are killed in auto crashes each yr. That is the similar of a Boeing 737 crashing each different day and killing each person aboard. In 2009, the final yr for which statics were released there have been five.five million automobile injuries,, two million accidents and 31,000 fatalities. There had been one million,500 commonplace aviation small aircraft injuries accounting for 275 fatalities and 30 airline injuries adding most effective two with fatalities totaling sixty nine humans. You have a one million in 14 risk of being killed in an automobile twist of fate on your lifetime and a one million in five,000 risk in any given yr. An plane pilot or passenger has a one million in eleven million risk of being in an plane twist of fate where there are fatalities.