How to Survive a Plane Crash: 10 Tips That Could Save Your Life | The Art of Manliness

How to Survive a Plane Crash: 10 Tips That Could Save Your Life | The Art of Manliness:
"You’ve Only Got 90 Seconds to Get Out
Understanding this is the key ingredient to surviving, and will frame all the other tips in this post.
If you’ve survived the crash landing, you have a pretty good chance of getting out of the airplane alive.
But, you only have 90 seconds to do so.
You see, the thing that kills most passengers in a plane crash isn’t the actual impact, it’s the fire that typically engulfs the plane afterwards.
...the worst aircraft disaster in history.
Two 747 jumbo jets collided with each other just above the runway on the small island of Tenerife (part of the Canary Islands off of Morocco).
After the collision, one jet tumbled to the ground and exploded, killing all 248 passengers on board.
The other jet crash-landed, but didn’t explode.
...Passengers who survived the initial collision could have escaped unharmed, but they had to act fast. Paul Heck, a passenger on the burning plane (who was 65, by the way), sprung to action.
He unbuckled his seatbelt, grabbed his wife’s hand, and hightailed it to the nearest exit.
They, along with 68 other passengers, survived, while 328 died.
In an interview after the disaster, Mr. Heck noted how most people just sat in their seats acting like everything was fine even after colliding with another plane and seeing the cabin fill with smoke. Researchers believe that passengers had a little over a minute to escape before being consumed by the flames, and are convinced that if more people had taken immediate action instead of remaining in their seats..."