The only survivor of an Air India airplane accident had several variables working in his favor, said an EMS expert from the Northeast University.
The only survivor of an Air India airplane accident had several variables working in his favor, said an EMS expert from the Northeast University.
But the most important thing may have been the chance.
After all, it was the deadliest air accident in history – 241 people on board died – with a single survivor.
In history, eight plane accidents killed more than 100 people who included a survivor. More recently, a 19 -year -old woman survived a Cuban plane accident who killed 112 in 2018. And in 2009, a 12 -year -old girl survived a Yemen accident that has cost life to 152.
“The probability of survival in an accident of this nature is incredibly weak, and I believe that luck was for its part,” explains Stephen Wood, a clinical teacher associated with Northeastern and longtime practitioner of the EMS.
Wood is also the director of the program of the program of nursing practitioners in active care in northeast care and co-sponsor for the university’s EMS service.
“The narrow strip of variables, including the position in the plane, the angle of impact, the body orientation, the use of restraint, the debris path and the immediate rescue or the self-evacuation, all had to be in place so that it could survive,” explains Wood.
An India air plane fell from the sky and separated shortly after takeoff on ThursdayKilling 241 people on board and about two dozen on the ground in Ahmedabad, India.
Viswashkumar Ramesh was the only passenger who survived,, Say to India’s state media That the side of the plane where he was sitting fell on the ground floor of a building and there was space so that he escapes after the door was opened. He detached his seat belt and forced himself to get out of the plane, reported the Associated Press.
Ramesh was seated in an outing row, which says that Wood generally says reinforced, but is also the place where wing – The “vertebral column” of the wing – and the fuel tanks are found.
“This actually makes a more dangerous place to sit in this type of accident,” says Wood. “Survival is rare.”
However, Wood says there are times when the momentum of a crash is uneven and creates areas where “survival pockets” exist on the plane.
A survival pocket is a small area in a crushed vehicle – in particular an airplane – where the forces of impact, fire and structural collapse are sufficiently attenuated to allow a person to survive, even when the rest of the structure is destroyed, says Wood.
Wood says that may be what happened in this case.
But other variables should have aligned themselves so that Ramesh move away from the accident.
Wood says that the fuselage also had to detach itself without damaging the area where Ramesh was seated.
“In this case, the fact that he was in an accelerated exit line his escape, reducing his exposure to smoke and fire,” explains Wood.
“It is quite surprising that it all happened, allowing it to survive this accident,” continues Wood.