Surviving a crash
I'm reading Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and, in a passage about why people die in plane crashes (definitely the scariest part of the book for me so far), I found this interesting bit of information, buried in a footnote:Here is the secret to surviving one of these crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical Institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way. (125)
That's not good news for me.
That's not good news for me.