News DSC/Sci Plane Crash special

UlrikeDG · Oct 8, 2012

Plane Crash "A 727 plane is programmed to crash into a desert via remote control in an effort to improve airline safety."

It aired last night after Mythbusters, and it's on again several times this week. I haven't seen it yet, but it looks like it could be educational for Techs and CPS Advocates. I know the Mythbusters plane crash position episode was enlightening, and that was only a small part of the episode!

According to TVGuide.com, it's airing tonight at 8 pm & 11 pm (Central) on the Science Channel, and again on Wed the 10th at 3 am. Then it will be on Discovery on Wednesday at 6 pm and midnight (technically Thursday) Central time.

4boysmom · Oct 8, 2012

UlrikeDG said:
Plane Crash "A 727 plane is programmed to crash into a desert via remote control in an effort to improve airline safety."

It aired last night after Mythbusters, and it's on again several times this week. I haven't seen it yet, but it looks like it could be educational for Techs and CPS Advocates. I know the Mythbusters plane crash position episode was enlightening, and that was only a small part of the episode!

According to TVGuide.com, it's airing tonight at 8 pm & 11 pm (Central) on the Science Channel, and again on Wed the 10th at 3 am. Then it will be on Discovery on Wednesday at 6 pm and midnight (technically Thursday) Central time.

http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=232192&highlight=plane+crash apparently many here think the episode/experiment all but useless... that this just highlights one specific crash dynamic and has close to zero overall usefullness minus the no lap baby thing that would be universal.

bnsnyde · Oct 8, 2012

It got too late so I thought would they EVER get to the crash???
So anyway, what's the conclusion? To brace or not?

And I didn't see any child seats or kid dummies. I was so annoyed. I wanted to see what a carseat would do, even RF and FF. But I didn't see the whole thing so maybe I missed something.

petriescz · Oct 8, 2012

They ended up saying in this case the brasing was a good idea since the unbrased dummy was hit with debree. They didn't mention kids/seats at all during the special but I think we could all agree in this survivable crash that lap babies would be hurt/dead. They did test unbelted passengers and they did not do well. And yes, I agree that it took forever to get to the crash part!

UlrikeDG · Oct 8, 2012

Brace. Not only does that make you a smaller/lower target when the debris starts flying, but it lowers head acceleration and decreases spinal injury.

I haven't seen the episode yet, but the whole thing where they drag out 30 minutes of actual information to fill 2 hours drives me nuts.

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