Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "The Crash of Mourn 79" video.

  1. I was the search and rescue coordinator for my county sheriff's department. It was in an area with lots of 2000 to 3000 foot peaks, but a few of them got to 4500-5000 feet. Those were the ones the planes always crashed into, and the ones most remote and hardest to search. I don't know exactly how many plane crashes I worked in my 27 years. It must have been at least 25. Of that, one had any survivors. That one was a weird story, too long to go into here, but we had to take out a lot of remains from the other crashes. I've seen death in almost every form, but nothing compares to the violence done to a human body from a plane flying full speed into that rock in the clouds.
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  2. johno, I don't think so. Most private aircraft already have three point belts, and all commercial aircraft use five point belts for the crew. Belts in aircraft are more for preventing turbulence injures than surviving a crash. Airbags have been looked at but there's really no room in most private aircraft for them. More seriously, there hasn't been a method found to prevent accidental deployment in turbulence. Accidental deployment when you're driving your car is bad, but you can usually pull over. There's no place pull over upstairs. All these kinds of safety measures are to help the pilot in a survivable crash. However, imagine what happens if you drive your car straight into a rock wall at between 150 mph and 500 mph. That kind of crash just isn't survivable no matter what kinds of safety measures the plane carries. The only safety measure that works are systems that prevent controlled flight into terrain.
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