In 2012 , idiot box producer purchase a Boeing 727 with the purpose of demolish it into the ground . The quislingism between the UK , the US , and Germany televised the results of the experiment , which would attempt to answer the question : where should I sit down on an aircraft if I desire to survive a crash ?

The carpenter’s plane – fill up withscientific measure equipment , crash trial blank , and photographic camera – take off under the control of a pilot program , before he jumped out of the plane , bequeath it to be pilot remotely . The whole thing rifle smoothly , by which we have in mind the plane smashed into the ground , a dry - up lake bed in Mexico , at 225 kilometers per hour ( 140 land mile per hour ) .

No injuries to humans were recorded , though the crash trial dummy went through quite an trial by ordeal .

Scientists looking through the datum and backwash found a number of things , let in that nobody in first class would survive . rider towards the front of the woodworking plane – up to row seven – would not have survived the impact , while rider pose in the midriff of the plane would suffer from broken ankles . Towards the back of the plane , you could result with no or low injury .

The experimentation , which learn scientists pore over the datum , found more support for the bitstock place . Dummies that espouse the brace position fared better than those sit upright , who ended up with spartan tenseness on their back .

" Between the lower - spine issuance and the vulnerability of sit upright and having debris wing around , I remember the pair position is still the means to go to prevent injuries , " Cindy Bir , a professor of biomedical engineering at Wayne State University , who was regard in the experimentation , told USA Today at the sentence .

The documentary and scientist all accent the rubber of air travel travel , which ( as everyone cognise ) isstatistically saferthan move by road .

" In terms of proportional safety , my view is that the front of the aircraft is more vulnerable , " Anne Evans , a former flight clank investigator at United Kingdom ’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch , severalize USA Today . " My favored location would be the in-between , over the flank , or the can of the fuselage . "