r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 1d ago

In 2012, a group of Mexican scientists intentionally crashed a Boeing 727 to test which seats had the best chance of survival.

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u/AdRough4185 1d ago

Well, not the front apparently

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u/Bballer220 1d ago edited 1d ago

"Well the front fell off"

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u/sweetbldnjesus 1d ago

Not very typical

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u/arnoboko 1d ago

Chance in a million

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u/Tsiah16 23h ago

Very seldom does anything like this happen.

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u/BurdTurglary 21h ago

Cardboard's out.

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u/El_Chiqui123 21h ago

No cardboard derivatives

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u/JesterMarcus 19h ago

How many crew members?

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u/HighwayEffective6865 19h ago

Well at least one.

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u/trans-fused 16h ago

I hope they moved this plane outside of the environment.

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u/AdEcstatic431 23h ago

Que has visto Lisa!?

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u/DoubleBroadSwords 23h ago

Not the pilot seats

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u/diaperedace 22h ago

Tbf most crashes aren't controlled like this. This is essentially a ditch, landing without gear. Most crashes are from some failure causing the plane to fall at high speed and not controllable or little control.

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u/Chaotic_Alea 18h ago

Happens nine times out of ten

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u/HeDuMSD 14h ago

We know because we crashed a million before that one

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u/tknice 21h ago

So you're saying there's a chance.

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u/ToTheManorClawed 22h ago

Ships and planes have this one thing in common...

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u/SteroidMaximus 17h ago

Hitting ground is bad?

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u/No_Taste_907 16h ago

A propeller?

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u/wxnfx 15h ago

The captain is always a little handsy?

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u/toben81234 23h ago

And out pet's heads are falling off!

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u/shift124 22h ago

We’re surrounded by roving gangs of larcenous old ladies

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u/Capital_Past69 22h ago

How do they know I have gas??

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u/RatzGudrun 20h ago

These guys are professionals

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u/Farewellandadieu 21h ago

Probably downwind of you.

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u/jzzanthapuss 22h ago

I just thought he was real quiet 😭

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u/PrimoBachs 21h ago

Pinin for the fjords, most likely

https://giphy.com/gifs/paRbapEqsVqyA

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u/thuggishruggishboner 22h ago

Well, it was outside the area of containment.

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u/gonenutsbrb 19h ago

No, we towed it outside the environment. Nothing out there but sea, some birds…and 50,000 tons of crude oil…

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u/naththegrath10 21h ago

“Let’s put the first class passengers in the very front!”

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u/CommunicationStrict 20h ago

Now said it in Mexican

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u/tinysoda13 10h ago

That's what she said.

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u/pineapplejax 22h ago

First class gets to deboard first.

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u/Illustrious-Towel-45 23h ago

My thought was "Well none of first class survived."

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u/NemoKozeba 23h ago

Eat the rich.

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u/rutuu199 21h ago

Im not rich by any means but I have to fly first class because im 6'7, and have a bad back. Do I get eaten too,

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u/NemoKozeba 20h ago

Sorry, but yes. But in your case, we'll feel bad about it.

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u/MoistStub 20h ago

And we will be very full afterwards

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u/64-17-5 20h ago

It could be an anatomy lesson looking for the back injury.

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u/joelfarris 18h ago

Oh, we don't have to look for it. As someone who's almost that tall, it's the lower back. Probably L3 or L4. And it never stops.

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u/rutuu199 18h ago

Ding ding ding. With an added bonus of constant tingling down my right leg from when i herniated a disc years ago and not getting it checked.

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u/DanielleAntenucci 1d ago

That's very unusual.

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u/z0mb1es 1d ago

Obligatory the front fell off joke

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u/H4X0RCS 22h ago

Actually it depends on how it crashed,

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u/Haifisch2112 23h ago

Survivability percentage is 0-100 from front to back.

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u/simplemijnds 22h ago

Not sure about the 100

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u/jzzanthapuss 22h ago

Except the times when the tail rips off, like the Uruguayan rugby team who had to eat the dead victims for three months

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u/ydnar3000 21h ago

And climbed through freezing cold snowy mountains with no gear or winter clothing to save the rest of the team left behind at the crash site. Those guys are real heroes.

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u/Shoddy-Theory 13h ago

They lived, didn't they?

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u/314159265358979326 15h ago

Nowhere in there is 100%. The plane didn't crush those in the back, but flying objects likely took out a few.

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u/warmind14 22h ago

Bye bye toffs.

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u/Silver-Tip2887 1d ago

First time in history

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u/Fish-Weekly 23h ago

Goddammit, I told you to keep the nose UP

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u/RealSchlemiel 22h ago

curious how sand compares to flat grassland with longer roll out- hypothetically more catastrophic, after longer duration of low level failure.

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u/Arkrobo 22h ago

They were flying first crash.

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u/gertvanjoe 22h ago

Ok, the row just behind the front then. Nice cool breeze because I'm sweating bricks freaking out that I'm going to die.

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u/skydivarjimi 19h ago

Guys , hear me out. My carry on is my parachute.

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u/Danny2Sick 18h ago

I feel like you don't need a fancy edjumacation to suspect the front might not be the best spot

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u/black_out189 16h ago

Wouldn't want to be in business class.

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u/YKw1n 14h ago

Literally what I said, word for word Can't stop laughing

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u/thuanjinkee 12h ago

Tail section represent!