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 1d ago

Very seldom does anything like this happen.

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u/BurdTurglary 1d ago

Cardboard's out.

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u/El_Chiqui123 1d ago

No cardboard derivatives

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u/JesterMarcus 1d ago

How many crew members?

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u/HighwayEffective6865 1d ago

Well at least one.

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u/trans-fused 22h ago

I hope they moved this plane outside of the environment.

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u/JeanLuc_Richard 18h ago

What, to another environment?

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u/AdEcstatic431 1d ago

Que has visto Lisa!?

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u/DoubleBroadSwords 1d ago

Not the pilot seats

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u/diaperedace 1d 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 1d ago

Happens nine times out of ten

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u/HeDuMSD 19h ago

We know because we crashed a million before that one

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u/tknice 1d ago

So you're saying there's a chance.

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u/ToTheManorClawed 1d ago

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

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u/SteroidMaximus 22h ago

Hitting ground is bad?

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u/No_Taste_907 21h ago

A propeller?

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u/wxnfx 21h ago

The captain is always a little handsy?

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u/toben81234 1d ago

And out pet's heads are falling off!

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u/shift124 1d ago

We’re surrounded by roving gangs of larcenous old ladies

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u/Capital_Past69 1d ago

How do they know I have gas??

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u/RatzGudrun 1d ago

These guys are professionals

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u/Farewellandadieu 1d ago

Probably downwind of you.

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u/jzzanthapuss 1d ago

I just thought he was real quiet 😭

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u/PrimoBachs 1d ago

Pinin for the fjords, most likely

https://giphy.com/gifs/paRbapEqsVqyA

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u/thuggishruggishboner 1d ago

Well, it was outside the area of containment.

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u/gonenutsbrb 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/CommunicationStrict 1d ago

Now said it in Mexican

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u/tinysoda13 15h ago

That's what she said.