don't commit suicide by jumping after this video (warning:very graphic)

[Jessica5]

After reading your response here. I thought there had to be a misunderstanding after reading your aggressive tone and looking at what I wrote. I was writing my thoughts from falling through a window of a building "instead of jumping" out of an open window which I still think is equal starting points of downward force. Basically where the fall takes place.

I still don't understand what is special about falling out of an airplane though.

Everybody else on Vulovic's flight died because they got sucked out of the plane. She survived because a food tray pinned her into the plane. https://allthatsinteresting.com/vesna-vulovic

When a plane crashes, the plane absorbs almost all of the impact. Plane crashes have something like a 95% survival rate (granted you'd hardly realize this from the news), and I'm not sure why Vulovic's survival is considered so much more impressive than thousands of other people who have survived plane crashes.

To clarify-Vulovic didn't fall out of a plane. She fell while stuck inside a plane.

 

[alizee]

Yes, in that case, you'd have saved everyone some aggravation if you'd watched the video, instead of assuming something different happened. Whatever, something to consider in the future.

I did watch the video but didn't notice she hit the glass at the ending since it was so fast. My bad though for sure.

 

[Lookingforabus]

Plane crashes have something like a 95% survival rate (granted you'd hardly realize this from the news),

To be fair, that's because "plane crashes" are mostly planes doing hard landings or skidding off the runway or something else that's relatively safe. Like calling a fender bender a "car crash"... yeah, technically accurate, but not really what anyone thinks of when they hear the term.

That flight attendant's story is so well known and made her so famous (at least in Eastern Europe) because it almost never happens that anyone survives a *real* plane crash, where it breaks up at altitude, smashes into the ocean or hits the ground in freefall. Whether people get sucked out of the plane or manage to stay securely fastened into their seats through the crash doesn't make much of a difference, statistically speaking, in what most people would consider a "real" crash (plane breaking up or high speed impact).

 

[Roger]

An American airman called Alan Magee survived a fall estimated at 22000 feet in 1943. Crashing through a glass roof of a railway station (St Nazaire, France) is the reason normally given for his survival.
A falling human body reaches terminal velocity after about 500 feet (variable) after which all those additional thousands which get into the record books are immaterial.

 

[MAIO]

In my world it's pretty clear that not every jumper can control how they land. On the way down isn't a great time to find out it's harder than it looks.



But whatever the fuck happened to that person was pretty clearly not what he had in mind.

I have never have any trouble controlling my body falling sky diving/bungee jumping/diving.

 

[Jessica5]

An American airman called Alan Magee survived a fall estimated at 22000 feet in 1943. Crashing through a glass roof of a railway station (St Nazaire, France) is the reason normally given for his survival.
A falling human body reaches terminal velocity after about 500 feet (variable) after which all those additional thousands which get into the record books are immaterial.

Terminal velocity is about 1500 feet actually.

 

[Roger]

Terminal velocity is about 1500 feet actually.

Yes, you are right.