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A comment on Effect of Passenger Position on Crash Injury Risk in Aircraft (2015) [pdf]. Parent comment
A passenger has practically zero information as to the seriousness of the crash. It could be a doozy. Or there could be a fuel leak waiting to ignite.
> backpack carried on the breast would not occupy space in which another human could have stayed
You're claiming given two lines of people, one wearing backpacks, the other not, that the latter cannot be compressed more than the former?
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A passenger has practically zero information as to the seriousness of the crash. It could be a doozy. Or there could be a fuel leak waiting to ignite.
> backpack carried on the breast would not occupy space in which another human could have stayed
You're claiming given two lines of people, one wearing backpacks, the other not, that the latter cannot be compressed more than the former?