The seating location of passengers on-board Jeju Air flight 2216
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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So the only two survivors were the economy flight attendants?
What’s sad is that they sort of landed… I imagine some relief from being on the ground, I know I would feel like we made it, then… a tragic end. So sad.
Also why the Black Boxes are in the tail.
Those last 6 people on the back were so close and yet so far.
Why don’t they make the whole plane out of the back?
From now on flying in the back
The two crew members were very lucky to survive the impact. However this outcome heavily relied on the fact that emergency crews risked their lives to go in there and save them without hesitation or indication of life. They are heroes.
In the 60’s I went to boarding school; my father, a mechanical engineer who consulted at Boeing at the time, always bought my tickets as far in the back as he could get them. I *hated* it…but he explained the physics of the situation so I just ‘winged it’ as they say!
Jeebus, only two survivors. I thought at least a handful would make it seeing as the plane was already landed on its belly and reducing speed before it crashed..
Why would you put a concrete wall at the end of a runway
Is there a seating chart for the one that crash landed in Kazakhstan? Given there were significantly more survivors, it would be interesting to see which seat locations faired better
The shittiest seats in the house, literally.
Trust the mexican experiment of 2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Boeing_727_crash_experiment
Just waiting for airlines to start charging a premium for seats at the back now
I’m always a big fan of the statistics that show that the back of the plane is safer than the front because I’m more than willing to fall on the sword in the 0.000001% chance that the plane goes down in a way that only *some* people perish.
Totally worth saving 10 minutes time loading and unloading when I sit in the front.
Holy shit that’s awful
best seats on the plane… well safest anyway. airplanes rarely back into the ground.
This is absolutely terrifying. I wonder if the bathrooms worked as some sort of protection from the explosion for the survivors?
Back when I used to fly, I always picked seats in the back. Cheaper and always thought if something happened, all the rude pricks in first class were going to be the first ones to die.
Maybe cause these seats have 3 point safety belts?
Those seats are facing front… So did they watch the entire plan disintegrate and everyone die while the wall of fire came barreling towards them down the entire length of the plane?
This breaks my heart
I like runways without a solid wall at the end.
confirm seating
The horror
I’m sad
And the few people that had a row to themselves thought they were lucky . . .
The front and middle sections most likely acted as the crumple zone. Still, it’s hard to imagine them without significant injuries.
Safest place to sit on a plane….on the ground
This is so sad
Legit Q: I’m no aeronautical engineer but why don’t major runways offer something similar to what air craft carriers do for fighter jets with the grapple hook or a huge netting system that’ll catch the plane that can’t stop in time before falling off the end of the ship?
Are those legit reasonable or plausible possibilities for emergency landings of commercial aircraft?
Hey you know what we should put at the end of this runway where jets land and take off at jet speeds, a nice big concrete wall.
– Some stupid fucking moron
Serious question. Why build a concrete wall at the end of the runway? Wouldn’t it make more sense to leave it open and use sand or something to slow planes down in these situations?
The rest survived a crash landing, only to be killed by the airport.
I know planes usually crash at much higher speeds then cars, but is there not a way to engineer crash cages or crush physics into planes? They always just disintegrate on impact from the ones I’ve seen.
Watch back seats be filled up first moving forward.
Ok run to the back if you go down got it
Usually middle seats are the most dangerous as you have fuel underneath your seats. Time and time again, the back section is always the safest when it comes to crash landings. Front area can break off easily and roll.
The only seats in the rear that had shoulder harnesses!