Airplane seatbelts aren’t for crashes, they’re for turbulance. When the plane suddenly drops 20 ft, you want to be attached to it otherwise you’re gonna slam into the ceiling and land on someone else.
20 feet to an airplane is nothing it’s more like a few hundred, which is still not that big a deal to a jumbo jet. It’s kind of like rogue waves on the ocean. When I was ~14 it happened during a flight I was on, it was pretty bumpy already so people were seatbelted in and stuff was stowed (this was prephones or laptops being common) and the plane just DROPPED everyone started screaming and throwing up and crying, myself included, the pilot came on and told us it was ok but everyone was so terrified and stuff did end up strewn all over inside the plane. It’s a core memory for me and I still hate flying because of it. I can’t imagine if I hadn’t had a seatbelt on, or someone near me didn’t, it would have been straight into the ceiling then straight back down on someone voilently vomiting and screaming
yeah, the “wear your seatbelt” thing isn’t for when you nosedive to your death. It’s for when you’re sitting there eating your shitty snack and the plane hits unexpected turbulence and drops 700 ft in 2 seconds while your face doesn’t until it gets hit with the ceiling of an airplane.
Not every crash is the same.
Also the seat belts work for turbulence, where the plane can hit a blob of low pressure and plummet several metres with little warning, so the belt is there to stop you colliding with the deck panels above you.
This is why I don’t really listen to the “wear your seatbelt thing” on flights
That plane disintegrated in three frames
Airplane seatbelts aren’t for crashes, they’re for turbulance. When the plane suddenly drops 20 ft, you want to be attached to it otherwise you’re gonna slam into the ceiling and land on someone else.
20 feet to an airplane is nothing it’s more like a few hundred, which is still not that big a deal to a jumbo jet. It’s kind of like rogue waves on the ocean. When I was ~14 it happened during a flight I was on, it was pretty bumpy already so people were seatbelted in and stuff was stowed (this was prephones or laptops being common) and the plane just DROPPED everyone started screaming and throwing up and crying, myself included, the pilot came on and told us it was ok but everyone was so terrified and stuff did end up strewn all over inside the plane. It’s a core memory for me and I still hate flying because of it. I can’t imagine if I hadn’t had a seatbelt on, or someone near me didn’t, it would have been straight into the ceiling then straight back down on someone voilently vomiting and screaming
yeah, the “wear your seatbelt” thing isn’t for when you nosedive to your death. It’s for when you’re sitting there eating your shitty snack and the plane hits unexpected turbulence and drops 700 ft in 2 seconds while your face doesn’t until it gets hit with the ceiling of an airplane.
Not every crash is the same. Also the seat belts work for turbulence, where the plane can hit a blob of low pressure and plummet several metres with little warning, so the belt is there to stop you colliding with the deck panels above you.
Oh shit. TIL.
Guess I’ll be wearing them now to avoid bumping my head