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Re:Pakistan airline admits taking extra passengers in aisle by jon-wood on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:36PM (#13733007)
I don't know if this is actually true, but I read recently that in the case of a crash the seatbelt isn't there to stop you dying, its to keep your body attached to your assigned seat so that you can be identified afterwards.
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Re:Pakistan airline admits taking extra passengers in aisle by FabHK on Saturday February 25, 2017 @04:01PM (#13733802)
A myth. Sure, there are accidents where everyone perishes with or without seatbelt (and those make the headlines), but there are surprisingly many accidents where some or many people survive.

> "between 1983 and 2000, more than 95 percent of people involved in U.S. plane crashes survived."

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2619382&page=1

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Re:Pakistan airline admits taking extra passengers in aisle by 4ad on Sunday February 26, 2017 @12:18PM (#13738327)
I agree that it is a myth, but that statistic is misleading, the definition used for "plane crash" is not one most people would agree with.
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Re:Pakistan airline admits taking extra passengers in aisle by FabHK on Monday February 27, 2017 @02:01PM (#13746811)
Fair enough, but bottom line is that lots can happen on a flight that might injure you, without necessarily being a prototypical plane crash. So better wear your seat belts.

Similarly, I take off my shoes during long flights, but make sure to have them on for take-off and landing, in case of evacuation.

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Re:Pakistan airline admits taking extra passengers in aisle by quirkafleeg on Saturday February 25, 2017 @02:14PM (#13733216)
Haven't heard that before, but even if true people often move seats, so it wouldn't be very accurate.
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Re:Pakistan airline admits taking extra passengers in aisle by stordoff on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:58PM (#13733116)
Sounds like the old "brace position is to kill you rather than injure you" myth to me. Struggling for a better source, but:

> And the seat belts that flight attendants urge you to wear during most of the flight also helped to keep head and neck injuries to a minimum, says Dr. David King, a trauma surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. “Clearly for the vertical deceleration [typical] of an airplane crash, the lap belt seems to be the most important restraint,” he says.

http://healthland.time.com/2013/07/09/lessons-from-flight-21...

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