00:00The impact can be severe enough to where parts can break off the plane and likely will.
00:04There may be engine fires, fuel can catch on fire, in which case it's anybody's guess which seat is
00:11the best to sit in. Hi, I'm Dan Bubb. I'm a former airline pilot and currently a professor in residence
00:16at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in the Honors College. So there are different types
00:20of crashes. You know, places where you have minor collisions tend to be more survivable.
00:25For example, as we saw with the Air Canada regional jet at LaGuardia recently, if it's a front-end
00:32collision, then ideally you would want to sit towards the back of the airplane because the front
00:36and the middle will absorb the impact of the collision. If it's a flat collision, meaning the
00:42aircraft stalled, which means it's going to succumb to gravity and it's going to impact the ground,
00:47and the impact can be severe enough to where parts can break off the plane and likely will.
00:52There may be engine fires, fuel can catch on fire. It's anybody's guess which seat is the best to sit
00:59in. Water landings are some of the more common ones where passengers will survive and pilots are
01:05trained to land on water in special ways. As far as evacuation goes, the best place to sit is near
01:11the exit row. You know, either in the exit row or behind it because you'll be able to get out
01:16very
01:17quickly. The ones where we see the most catastrophic impact are involving the entire aircraft if it
01:22crashes into a mountain at a high speed, if it crashes into another airplane at altitude or on
01:28the ground at high speed. The chances of survival are much lower in those instances. But if you're
01:33going to go by the data, generally speaking, sitting towards the back of the aircraft is where we see
01:38the greatest survivability. So there are different types of crashes, but that's why we say there's
01:42generally no safest seat on board an aircraft because it really depends on the type.
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