If you're on a plane that's about to crash and you

>>8997283
If you are travelling at 200km/h down and jump up at 5km/h you are still going down at 195km/h

>>8997286
If only the people in that tower in London had seen this they might have survived

>>8997283
OP I used to think that if an elevator cable snapped and you were falling that if you just jumped a second before the elevator hit the floor you would survive unscathed. My parents couldn't explain to me why this didn't work but I can tell you why it doesn't work. It's because when you're in a falling elevator you become suspended in the air because the elevator floor falls faster than gravity can pull you down, so you cant jump.

>>8997337
But that's wrong. If your thighs were powerful enough and you used the handrails to hold yourself in contact with the floor on the way down, you could jump hard enough to survive.

>>8997285
if the plane was going down at 5km/h and you jumped up at 5km/h would you levitate?

>>8997283
whats the angle and speed of the decent?

>>8997383
Temporarily, yes. In the same way that a rock "hovers" temporarily when you toss it in the air.

It would be extremely painful to say the least

>>8997283
I'd still rather land in the water without a plane than in it, I think my chances of survival then would be greater

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>>8997283
>within the threshold distance of jumping without dying, would you die?

>>8997664
hey brainlet, hitting a body of water from high speeds is the same as hitting a cement floot

>>8997337
the best way to survive an elevator fall is trying to lie flat on the floor, which is easier said than done as you explained

>>8997283
you're still moving, you don't stop as soon as you exit the plane. YOu could reduce it, by jumping up but it would be so tiny and being inside, strapped in, etc. Would give you a better chance of survival because the plane would absorb a lot of the impact and the safety peripherals will help too. The challenge would be getting out without drowning but if you simple jumped out you'd just break a lot of bones on impact - not that you wouldn't inside the plane anyways..

>>8997283
>looney tunes physics

>>8997684
if I take an hydrodynamic position I will decelerate slower but over larger distance and time