239 and 1 Lone Survivor on 11-A~~Is There a Safer Seat on a Plane
Contrary to the ideas I proposed yesterday about the plane spoilers maybe being responsible for the crash but new evidence not based on the black boxes but observing the tape available of the plane when it took off it show that the instrumentation on the plane had gone off and if there were no instruments chances are both engines had stop running to defect or mistake. Will keep you posted. Knowing about Airplanes is a hobby of mine. Wanted to be an Airline pilot but life took on a different path or should say paths. We Know this because a small fan had come out underneath the plane. It's small and it works by the air going through or by it. It only pops out when there are no instruments on the plane. The job of this battery operated fan is to keep the necessary instrumentation on together with the fuel flowing. It was too early before the plane crash but the computers of the plane had been aware there was a problem. Had the plane been high on the air maybe it could have been saved. Take off and landings are the most carefully monitored actions of the airplane because that's when most accidents happen.Once it crashed, where would you like tube seated?
Suddenly, airline passengers around the world are wondering if there is something special about Seat 11A.
That’s where Viswash Kumar Ramesh, 38, the sole survivor of the Air India Boeing 787-8 that crashed after takeoff in Ahmedabad, India, on Thursday was sitting. Did the location of his seat help spare his life?
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| An Air India Boeing 787, the type of aircraft that crashed on Thursday in Ahmedabad, India, killing at least 269 people.Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto, via Getty Images |
A man in white clothing leans over a patient dressed in blue lying on a hospital bed.
A still image taken from a video released by the official YouTube channel of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India showing Mr. Modi at the bedside of Viswash Kumar Ramesh, the only survivor of Air India Flight 171.Credit...Narendra Modi YouTube Channel, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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| Probably not, aviation experts said. There’s nothing that makes that or any other seat safer than anywhere else on a plane, and they added, it’s usually not worth trying to game out safety when selecting where to sit for a flight. |
“If you’re in a crash, all bets are off,” said Jeff Guzzetti, a former accident investigator for the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board. “So pick whatever seat you want to make you feel comfortable.”
While conventional wisdom holds that the rear of an aircraft may be safer, that theory falsely assumes that the front of a plane will always make impact first in the event of a crash, Mr. Guzzetti said. “You just can’t predict crash dynamics.”
Airlines use different configurations for different aircraft. On that Air India flight, Seat 11A was in an exit row on the left side, according to a seat map on SeatGuru. Sitting near an exit may allow passengers to escape more quickly in some circumstances, but Mr. Ramesh told India’s state broadcaster that the right side of the aircraft was “crushed against a wall,” preventing anyone else who may have survived the initial impact from escaping through the exit on that side.
In an emergency like a fire, when “you’re still sitting on your landing gear and the airplane is pretty much upright and intact,” an exit row may offer the quickest path to safety, Mr. Guzzetti said. “But with regard to the crash dynamics of an accident like Air India, I think it’s just a matter of chance.”
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| An Air India 787-8 landing in Copenhagen last year.Fabrizio Gandolfo/SOPA Images, via LightRocket, via Getty Images |
A white and orange passenger jet seen from the side with its landing gear extended. It has Hindi characters on one side and a sun or a flower painted on its tail.
An Air India 787-8 landing in Copenhagen last year.Credit...Fabrizio Gandolfo/SOPA Images, via LightRocket, via Getty Images
Shawn Pruchnicki, a former accident investigator at the Air Line Pilots Association and an assistant professor of aviation safety at Ohio State University, chalked up Mr. Ramesh’s survival to “purely luck.”
“In these types of accidents people just don’t survive this close to the front, this close to fuel,” Dr. Pruchnicki said, referring to the fact that the fuel tanks on a Boeing 787 are mainly on the wings and in the fuselage between them.
The crash on Thursday was the latest in a string of recent aviation disasters around the globe, including a midair collision in Washington in January, and crashes in South Korea and Kazakhstan in December, that have raised fears among some travelers about the safety of flying. Aviation experts say flying remains safe and that crashes, though high-profile, remain very rare.
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