1970s American Culture Sociology Documentary Films: Health, Education, Fashion, Drug Use
In the Western world, social progressive values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and political and economic liberty ...
WHERE'S IT SAFEST TO SIT IF YOUR PLANE CRASHES?
The passengers not wearing a seat belt
would have submarined under three rows of seats. The passengers who
did not brace would have been left with brain injuries while those who
did brace would have ended up with a fractured ankle after their legs
buckled making it very difficult to escape. But as accident
investigators point out every crash is different.
Cynthia Bir, professor of
biomedical engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit, believes
you should wear a seat belt and brace. A lot of fatalities occur in
aeroplane crashes because of fire, she said.
People die from smoke
inhalation because they cant get off the plane. If you break your leg
on a plane that has crashed and there is a fire you are at a higher risk
because you cant load bear your leg and no one is going to help you.
