Would it hurt to die in a plane crash>?

Question

Like one of those ones thats a total destruction, so at the very moment of impact would you feel anything?

Also, if those so called 'black boxes' (they are actually ORANGE!) is so strong..why not make the whole plane out of that material!?!!

Answer 1

Every body has to keep asking the damn

Also, if those so called 'black boxes' (is so strong..why not make the whole plane out of that material!?!!

Because it would be to heavy to fly.

Answer 2

As a trained aircraft crash investigator and have studied the human body a little. I think I can safely say the human body would not feel any pain on impact. The human body is mostly water and on impact or sudden stoppage the human body or in terms we can under stand the human water balloon will burst into a million small pieces. The human cells will explode and you would not feel the pain as it would happen to fast.

I have picked people (parts) up in a bucket at accident sites and I don’t think they felt much after hitting the ground at 180 kts.

You have to remember you high school science classes about the human body we feel pain through the central nervous system. If you sever the spinal cord or other vital organ the (brain) you cannot feel pain. Even people that survive accidents with broken backs that have severed the spinal cords cannot feel the pain in most cases.

I assume you are afraid of crashing in an airplane. If that is the case sit in the rear of the aicraft and you will most likely survive. Ever wonder the where the black boxes (bright orange) are stored on aircraft. Yep in the back of the aircraft.

Answer 3

Wow, I'm getting tired of both of these questions. Can we please start focusing on flying instead of crashing? The goal of flying, is to safely depart the earth and safely arrive at our destination. If we're lucky, or we've popped for a really expensive charter flight, we have our bags with us when we get there.

Would you feel anything? Physical pain? Possibly, I can assure you that it would be quick and fleeting, and you'd find yourself headed to your just reward before you'd had a chance to comprehend it.

Would you feel terror in the final moments? Probably not, you'd be too busy trying to do whatever you could to regain control of the aircraft.

To answer your (orange) black box question, locomotives are strong. They're also heavy. If you were to act as an engineer and drive a locomotive off a cliff where a bridge had been washed out, you'd be just as dead in the smoking crater the locomotive left behind as you would in an airplane that disintigrated into a smoking hole right beside it.

Making something stronger and heavier, doesn't make it safer; it merely means that it's going to use more fuel to go as far as something that's a few thousand times lighter and uses stressed aluminum, stringers and ribs.

The black, (orange,) boxes are pretty heavy. Making the whole airplane out of the same material, as we look towards new and lighter composites to save fuel, (so we can all revel in how inexpensive gasoline is at $2.499,) isn't going to matter a tinker's dam; you're going to be just as dead.

You might leave behind a better looking corpse. I don't think that's something I'm going to be worried about when I'm gone.

I've really got to stop getting suckered into answering these questions.

Fly the Unfriendly Skies,
JT

Answer 4

We've never been able to ask a person who has died in a catastrophic plane crash whether it hurt or not, but I imagine that it didn't. To get a little gory, your brain is probably ripped away from the other parts of your body that are sending pain signals to it fast enough to avoid registering them.

MY question about "black boxes" is why put them on the airplane in the first place? They always seem to have trouble finding the things. Why not just have the airplane send all the signals that it sends to a "black box" sent back to a central computer at the airport, or to cells along the route? (There's a billion-dollar idea for a young MBA - run with it. You're welcome.)

Answer 5

No, you wouldn't even know what happened. It would be so very fast that you would not feel anything.

As far as the black box, if they made the plane out of that, it would be too heavy to fly. Plus, even if a plane was made with Ultra Strength Steel, You would die from the impact anyway. Plane's travel at 300+ mph, and if it were to hit the ground, your body would never be able to handle that impact inertia anyway. You would die anyway.

Answer 6

Dead is dead--the great impact renders people without any feelings of pain. Those that survive are going to have as much pain as anyone with an injury from any cause. The plane would be too heavy if made from black box materials.

Answer 7

It would depend on the type of crash. If a plane were to hit something while going very fast, such as on 9-11, I'm sure you would never feel a thing. I'm guessing everything would just go black??? If you were to crash less violently, then you very well could feel it. Many people have been killed by the fire that so often engulfs a plane after a crash.

Answer 8

would it hurt to die in an airplane crash? i dont know since i have not died in an airplane crash. but to tell you the truth, it really wouldnt matter anyway, your dead.

as for the black box question, have you seen the condition of some of the black boxes after an accident? those things are not as tough as you would like to think. besides there is a shock absorbing material that is designed to prevent a massive shock from destroying the contents.

Answer 9

Succubus......
Check out the Cirrus (Spelling may be off) light A/c. It has exactly that. A parachute that is jettisoned from above the cockpit. The craft floats down to a near perfect 3 point landing. The website has a mpeg of it.

Answer 10

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