Definately asleep!

Asleep I guess... better not know anything.

I'd pay huge money to see that. Seriously.

yes it matters.

many airline and most general aviation crashes are survivable if you know how to get out. airplanes continue to fly even with power loss, they just become gliders. even jets can make successful off-airport forced landings on land or water in the event of power loss. and almost all single engine small planes can land safely in a short flat area due to low stall speed. a cessna skyhawk can land and get stopped in about 400 feet with a dead engine.

if you are asleep, or inattentive about where your emergency exit is your greatest danger is fire of smoke inhalation after a successful forced landing. you need to get out of the airplane, and you need to be awake.

Hopefully I'm fast asleep if it ever happened

i'd rather be sleeping but i'm sure i'd get woken up by everyone screaming

so i think EVERYONE would be awake no matter what

Why do you assume you'd die in a crash?

If you think a jet ditching could ever be construed as a landing let alone a successful one, you're a fool. Same kind of dope that tells me to put on my life vest to jump into the North Atlantic in the event of a ditching... I mean "water landing".

not a fool. just a pilot for 20 years.

jets rarely ditch in the ocean. but if they do they are equipped with life rafts and fly "great circle routes" with specified altitudes and calculated engine out glide ratios to minimize the chance of a water ditching. there are no single engine airlines, and these aircraft can remain aloft losing half their engines.

when you fly to london from NYC you are mostly gliding distance to land the entire distance. same with chicago to tokyo.

when lindbergh flew the spirit of st.louis to paris he was over land most of the time. airlines do something similar as geography permits.

there is a reason airplanes don't go down in the middle of the ocean much. but if you must ditch in the ocean make sure you know how to put on your life vest---how to inflate it, and how to use the blow tube, and the emergency light. it is designed to save your life. there are lots of safety measures but lack of knowledge kills plenty of people when things go wrong.

I would eat out the stewardess.

And hopefully....
50 dead people

50........ :BangBang:

Thanks -- I didn't know that. :sleep

If you're honestly a jet pilot that has flown over water, you'd know my "life vest" would be worthless in the N. Atlantic and that ditching is the worst thing that could ever happen on a flight.

awake so that I will be aware, and do something before its too late (getting a parachute)... Gee, I dont want to die in that way... I dont want my body crashed into peices... yeooooowww!

no not an ATP, but it's important to educate yourself when the stewardess demonstrates the safety features of the airplane you are flying in---i guess many people here do not know this stuff, and i see many people sleeping through the info simply because flying is so safe these days.

it is true that an ocean ditching is just about the worst eventuality, especially in cold water, but...

the personal life vest is only designed to keep you afloat until you can be retrieved and put in a life raft which all airlines have on board. the life raft has emergency provisions (food and water) and they are covered to keep you out of the weather.

and this is why it's better to be awake when a plane goes down.

http://www.theraft.com/frames/main/p...ead/abouts.htm

God -- you sound like my flight attendant wife.

:winkwink:

Of course it's better to be awake and alert. Have a good one, latinasojourn.