Life and death at 37,000 feet
My evening's digest of television and Internet is definitely not the best preparation for an impending flight on Friday. The BBC's wonderful Horizon show "Survivor's Guide to Plane Crashes" had me rivoted from start to finish.
Did you know that ...
- 3 million people fly every day
- over 90% of crashes have survivors
- some planes have airbags
- inflating your life jacket before exiting the wreckage can severely hamper your chances of survival
- a woman called Mercedes survived a plane. Having a name like that, is it any great surprise?
Over at Memex 1.1, the ever-interesting Guardian journo John Naughton points to an article written in the NY Times by one of its reporters who happened to be on the plane that clipped the recently downed Boeing 737 in Brazil.
tags:plane crash
Published by Colm.
Did you know that ...
- 3 million people fly every day
- over 90% of crashes have survivors
- some planes have airbags
- inflating your life jacket before exiting the wreckage can severely hamper your chances of survival
- a woman called Mercedes survived a plane. Having a name like that, is it any great surprise?
Over at Memex 1.1, the ever-interesting Guardian journo John Naughton points to an article written in the NY Times by one of its reporters who happened to be on the plane that clipped the recently downed Boeing 737 in Brazil.
tags:plane crash
Published by Colm.
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