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
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