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| Fall From A Plane Without A Parachute |
Imagine, you are traveling on a plane, you enjoyed the aerial view, you ate and drank and then went to sleep, the last thing your eyes saw was the blue sky in which you were flying inside a plane. you wake up suddenly, and the first thing your eyes see is the color of the blue sky, but outside the plane! No matter how you got out of the plane, you're in the air, no parachute and no help, what are you going to do? You may still be inside the plane, oops, inside "part of the exploding plane", but you're falling towards the ground! What will you do?
Most likely, your life will be over, there's a 99% chance you'll die, but let's just think for a minute, there's something you can do that makes you think for a second, that your adventure on planet Earth isn't over yet. Perhaps you are one of those “1%” who will survive when falling from a plane without a parachute. who knows!
According to the Aircraft Crash Record Office in Geneva, stories of surviving falls were told by 157 survivors who disembarked from their planes after the crash, without a parachute, recorded between 1940-2008, So as we said, there is even a tiny bit of hope.
Since there is hope for your survival, you must know how to save yourself. First, we will present this problem in several scenarios, it may have fallen as a body only, maybe something happened that made you fall with your seat, or maybe part of the plane, the front or the tail or something else, and you were part of one of those areas. Will you work with the advice of the article to be Who are the survivors? Or will you relax and claim that you will die and enter the paradise?!
Stages to survive if you fell from a plane in the sky without a parachute?
The first step
In case you're still tied up in your seat or maybe part of a plane piece is attached to your body
Your first thought might be to free your body from the seat or separate whatever is attached to you, perhaps when you think that you are carrying weight in addition to your weight, that makes you mentally motivated to think [You're going to hit the ground faster, so you're going to strip yourself of everything.
Quite the contrary, my friend, the biggest proof that you should keep what fell with you “may he save you” is what happened with the Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic, who survived a plane explosion, was sitting by the tail of the plane, so she stayed in her seat with its food cart, falling from 33,000 feet, the plane smashed a number of trees on a snowy hillside, and the trees are believed to have softened the fall, and the snow helped mitigate the severity as well.
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| Vesna Vulović |
We're not sure here that you might survive, or you might die of a stroke before you hit the ground, the trees might be tougher than expected, piercing your window and then you! But also if you stay alive, the hospital will probably host you for a short period of time, Vanessa suffered a broken skull, a broken leg, and fractures in three vertebrae, but despite that, she survived and eventually recovered.
Now suppose you fall with your body only, extending it into the air as if you were skydiving
Two forces will affect you, the force of your body’s weight pulling you down, and the air resistance that pushes you up. The air molecules collide with you in the opposite direction to your descent, and this creates resistance called “pull resistance.” The faster your body falls, the more air resists it and pulls you up. This slows down your overall acceleration. In general, your body then reaches its terminal velocity (it can't go any further).
Here be aware that we noted that you fall with your own body weight only, we did not touch on body conditions, we assumed that you take a resting position, stretching your body in the air along your arms and legs, ie the body is in a comfortable dynamic position. It's different here if you want to take into account your weight and the way you fall as well as the direction of your fall, and if you're holding on to something, you'll have to deal with its size as well.
In fact, the height of the fall doesn't matter whether you're falling at 5,000 feet or 35,000 feet, because scientifically, a normal object reaches its average final velocity (or about 99% of its final velocity) after it passes 1,880 feet of fall. That takes about 13-40 seconds, which will give you a whopping 124mph, but as we said, it depends on the shape of the object that is falling.
If the shape of the body is flat in the event of a fall, the landing speed is estimated between 260-270 miles per hour, but if you are suspended from a part of the plane, your landing speed depends on the weight and surface area of this part, for example, if you fall in a car, you will reach Final speed ranges from 200-300 mph.
In a fall like this, you may face the problem of “hypoxia” at an altitude of 35,000 feet, as the amount of oxygen at this altitude is very small, and you may lose consciousness, and you should also pay attention to the outside temperature at this altitude, where the average temperature is 54 degrees Celsius below Zero, so the general atmosphere is very cold, and the so-called “Wind Chill Factor” makes matters worse, which means the extent to which the wind speed affects the cooling of the body temperature, which makes the body temperature reach 100 degrees Celsius below zero.. Why not freeze? The answer is simple, your body is falling at about 125 mph, so it makes sense that your body should warm up somewhat before you freeze! Perhaps in rare cases, the body is subjected to what is called “heat shock” and it cannot bear and “Surely we belong to Allah and to Him we return.”.
So, what we learned from the previous first is to adopt the slow fall technique, that is, we must take a dynamic position to make the body more stable in the air, to increase the drag force, so we will stretch in the air, and straighten the arms and legs as if we were going down a parachute, this is also called “the technique of parachute landing” Or the box position, or the arch position, “pressing the air with the arms and legs and flattening the body more.” Many skydivers claim that 10-15% of their falls are reduced by using this technique.
Here's what can do to slow down your speed during falling:
Skydiving suits, which are specifically designed to provide more traction, help you reduce your fall speed from 125 to 100-110 mph, depending on the size of the suit, but you won't wear them You must be on a plane, right? In general, heavy clothing will provide you with a speed reduction of about 10%.
The second stage of falling without a parachute
Now, we've done everything we can to slow down the landing velocity, we have to decide where we're going to land. You may tell me it's not your decision. sure, but I'll give you an idea now if you have the chance of a less damaging landing. On a variety of surfaces:
The longest plane crash was in 1942 in World War II. Russian pilot Ivan Chisov survived, falling from a height of 22,000 feet and losing consciousness before falling over the edge of a valley covered with three feet of snow. Evan suffered a pelvic fracture and a temporary injury to the spine.
Evan was not alone, as I said it was a time of war, followed by the American pilot Alan Magee, who fell from a height of 20,000 feet, Alan also lost consciousness, and had the luck of falling on the glass surface of the train station, before meeting the stone ground (The Road). He broke his right leg and ankle, and his right arm was nearly cut off, and he was hit by shrapnel from the glass, but he eventually survived.
In 1944, Nicholas Alkemade survived a fall from 18,000 feet when he dumped his grenade launcher, which spiraled out of control, jumped out of it before it burned, and landed among pine branches before hitting the snow-covered ground. He had a knee sprain.
In 1971, Juliane Koepcke survived a two-mile fall from the ground, strapped only to her seat.
Michael Holmes, a skydiver who fell two miles after his parachute malfunctioned, fell over Lake Taupo in New Zealand into a red raspberry bush. Holmes helped his parachute malfunction. As we said, the higher the weight, the higher the pull, and the slower motion. In Michael's case, the extra drag of his parachute that let him down lowered his speed to 80mph.
What is the best surface to fall on?
You may get the idea that water is the best material to fall on, since our body is able to penetrate any lake, but no, if you think that falling on water, for example, is better than hitting a glass surface or the ground, or better than falling between trees, you are wrong dear. The first thing you should think of is a surface that can be compressed around half a meter to ensure complete flexibility and no fatal injury. Water doesn't compress here with your fall, but hitting it at 124 mph will shatter your body as if you were hitting concrete. Best options can be heavy snow, haystacks or bushes, or even a plowed field.
And if your only option is “water”, then you have to take into account some positions, so that you may survive. Try to put your body in a standing position, that is, as if you are number “1.” It is possible that your legs will be damaged and suffer severe fractures, but at least you will survive by paddling with your hands. Keep your mouth closed and your cheeks taut to avoid internal injury.
If your abyss is some trees, try to protect your diaphragm with your elbows (fold your elbows in front of it) while covering your face with your hands, this will provide some protection for your vital internal organs from damage from tree branches, and keep your legs flexible together to absorb the greatest amount of shock when reaching Earth.
The question everyone is asking here:
Will I choose what I will fall on? will I Fall on unknown location
how do I choose?
In a previous paragraph, we mentioned how to maintain a stable position in this free fall, by extending the arms, legs and body. In short, using the slow fall technique. Here, you can sort of control your fall mechanism. Once you're stable in the air, you can orient yourself by moving your arms like you're a winged plane.
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Once in a box position, facing forward, pull your arms slightly back toward your shoulders, straighten your legs, and to go back, extend your arms and bend your knees.
Children's chance of surviving when falling without a parachute is much greater than that of adults. Why?
Studies show that children (under the age of four) have a much higher survival rate than adults, due to the fact that their skeleton is flexible, and the levels of subcutaneous fat are also higher, thus ensuring more protection for their internal organs.
This Post Is Translated from Arabic, Original post is written by Rawan Salim,
References:www.arageek.com
