Comment Re:Not really (Score 1) 327
Like I said in another place:
I wish people would stop mentioning her. Yes it's impressive, but not what this article's about.
1) She stayed in the airplane the whole time. She was also pinned under a catering trolly, which probably worked like a seatbelt.
2) The airplane hitting trees to slow down is MUCH more preferable to your body hitting the trees.
3) The plane didn't even fall from that high. According to the 2009 report it was a much lower height.
4) There's much more impressive people with stories that are actually true:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Magee
WW2 guy's plane gets shot over France, he gets out but finds his parachute is damaged, falls 22,000 feet and goes through a glass roof of a train station that "softens" his fall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade
Another WW2 gunner who's plane gets shot. It lights on fire, his parachute was destroyed in the fire, so he decides to jump instead of burning alive. He fell 18,000 feet AND ONLY SUFFERED A SPRAINED LEG.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Chisov
Again, WW2 flier who's plane was shot over Germany. His plan was to avoid being a target was to wait to deploy his parachute until he got below the battle, unfortunately it backfired because he lost consciousness. He hit a ravine and had some fairly serious injuries but was flying 3 months later.
THESE stories are what people should be pointing at for this article.
