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turkish air crash

This makes the second crash in a short period where sitting in the back of the plane was bad for your health. In the recent water landing, the flight attendants in the front said the landing was incredibly smooth. The flight attendant in the back said it was incredibly violent, suffered a deep wound. When she was up to her neck in water, she started, in her words, pushing passengers over seats to get them to move forward in the aircraft. Her uniform was "torn to shreds."

In the crash in Kentu*cky, the pilot (in the front) was the only survivor.

On this crash, "Most of the injured were seated toward the back of the plane, which sustained the most damage, a passenger on the plane told Turkish station NTV. Many of the passengers simply walked off the plane through the cracks in the fuselage, witnesses told NTV."

Now, the chances of being in a plane crash unless you fly daily or live in a third world country are very, very small. Still, it's interesting to note. Studies have shown that the closer you are to an emergency exit, the more likely you are to survive a crash. There is a significantly higher concentration of emergency exits at the front of the plane.

I found this really interesting as well:

Kieran Daly, of Air Transport Intelligence said the impact had been severe but it could have been survivable because of the lack of fire. He added that there had been vast improvements in the materials used to build airplanes, meaning they did not burn as easily.

8:13 a.m. - Feb. 25, 2009