That is the high flying, hard hitting content I'm subscribed for. This subject is just plane difficult to cover but you decided to wing it and stuck the landing. I mean chute, I'd rather jump out of a perfectly good airbus than crash and burn trying to soften the blow when telling someone their flights canceled... Mid air.
Onno Inada: Maybe it would work. I remember when the Pink Panther was in a shed that was plummetting from a very high cliff. Just before the shed shattered on the ground Mr. Panther stepped out and came out with nary a scratch.
My uncle was in the Brazilian Navy parachute regiment and survived twice, apparently in both situations he had some trouble with his chute. Both cases he sustained horrible injuries, but now his fine, and lives in the U.S. in the state of Washington
Brazil?Im gonna jump outa an airplane when the chute was packed in Brazil?Im gonna Dance and get liquored in Brazil but I aint jumpin from no Plane in Brazil brudda
A long time ago I worker with a laborer boss named Jack Hare if my memory serves me who was a guy that never ever got mad or frustrated. one day I asked him his secret to his demeanor. He told me that in ww2 he was a tail gunner in B17s and his airplane was hit by a flack burst at 10000 ft. and was burning. unable to get to his chute threw the flames he made a decision tho jump threw his blown away canopy rather than be burned to death. Falling from 10000ft to his certain death he was calm and at peace. Dyeing was something that you accepted in the job he was doing so he enjoyed the trip down. as it turned out a perfect combination of circumstances Winter snow ,mountain slops , pine trees acted like a big break to save his life. Uninjured he was later captured and interrogated. The Germans thought he might of buried important papers with his chute and performed a search He told them Americans don't need chutes. He spent the rest of the war in a prison camp. So I asked what this have to do with my question and he replied that he should have died that day and so the rest of his life was extra so no reason to ever be bothered by life IT WAS ALL GOOD!
James E. Wagner Jr. That reminds me of the time when I fell out of my gunship while flying over Iraq. I flapped my arms super fast and landed with a bellyflop into the sand. I was promptly surrounded by ISIS fighters who captured me and tried to behead me. Luckily, their knife was too dull to cut through my tough neck skin which had been calloused by the fall and years of neck chokes in martial arts. Later that night I was able to snap the fetters that bound me and proceeded to ambush the guards while asleep. I wrote a message to ISIS in the blood of my captors upon the wall that read "America is the land of freedom and heroes". After trekking what felt like a thousand miles, I finally arrived at an American outpost beaten, bloodied, but not defeated. After finishing 2 more tours, I finally flew home to be with my loving family and friends again and I was free to tell my heroic story. But nobody believes it. Anyway, this is why I'm able to remain so super calm and cool in the face of insurmountable odds and imminent perils just like your buddy does, in case you were wondering.
The New Talker Guy I really hope this is true! Just knowing the strength and resilience of humans as a species makes me feel more peaceful about the future. Because hell you surviving that shit makes all my problems so small in comparison, that I know I got this :)
This, like "stop, drop and roll" and quicksand, was something I really expected would be more of an issue growing up than it actually turned out to be.
I live in the Sonoran desert in Arizona and quicksand is still a legit fear. I always make my wife walk in front of me when we are hiking. I tell her it's because I like watching her butt in those sexy shorts and hiking boots. MMMM that sounds nice. Yes it is a joke. Waifu doesn't walk when a gentleman can carry her. LOL I'm all alone.
Mr. Scott you are awesome sir. I laugh more with every video and love the information you provide. Next time I am falling to my death out of a plane I will be thinking of you sir. Much appreciated!
He's actually onto something. Smaller bodies are more aerodynamic. Gravity works slower in falling from great distances. The downside is being too small to have as much physical control. The downside is why height requirements are enforced at theme parks.
@@DaJesster0405 yes, and they don't want the kiddies to slip out from under that big retaining bar on your belly. I have no problems whatsoever in that regard! LOL :D
One of my favorite videos of all time. Have shown it to so many people. Living in a fly-in only Alaskan village, I think about this video every time I fly on one of those tiny little death traps (almost everyone here has been in multiple plane crashes)
I'm a skydiver and I travel with my parachute sometimes. I get weird looks from people when I'm boarding a plane wearing my rig. :) On the subject of falling: It takes about 1000 feet to reach terminal velocity, so it doesn't matter if you fall 1000ft or 30000ft, the end result is the same.
@@chinchenping only seen it once, clapping, when landing in heavy fog, and runway running out, USA pilot dropped plane down from a higher height than usual, thus saving us, albeit rattled, ……….just a teeny weeny bit. :D
I'm the son of a retired commercial pilot, so I feel like I've been on ... a lot of airplanes. I've only seen people clap twice. Once on my dad's retirement trip, and once when the landing was *incredibly* smooth. Like, to the point that I didn't know we had touched down.
@@KipColeman love those ones. I flew a lot for my job, not as a pilot. We did aerial surveys of wildlife, in small planes, Cessna Sky Wagon mostly it was. Pilot, Brian, would always, and I mean ALWAYS, say as we landed and taxied to the hanger: "Well, we cheated death, one more time." "Gee thanks, Brian, can't wait for next flight", I'd say!!! But I'm here!!!. So, thanks, Brian, wherever you are! :)
I'm new to your channel so this past week I've been watching in the morning while I get ready for work thanks for making my mornings a little more interesting thanks Joe
Okay, I'm not a physicist, nor am I a doctor. However, I am a skydiver. We were always taught to land in a PLF (parachute Landing fall). Balls of the feet, calves, thigh, hip, side, shoulder, roll with head, arms and legs tucked in and repeat as often as necessary. I was always taught this was the best chance of surviving and reducing chance of injury regardless whether my parachute was fully open, partially open or not open at all. I have seen fellow skydivers hit really, really hard and not necessarily walk away, but came out alive using a PLF. I hope you don't need this information, but there it is.
I'm not really sure how you're supposed to perform this when you fall without a chute. The entire ordeal will be over in literally like 500 milliseconds.
@@Mythricia1988 This information is given to students when they go through ground school before they ever even make their first jump. Usually this procedure is used when either you have a fully open Chute, but are landing in an unfortunate way, for example high-speed down wind Landing, or when a jumper has a partially inflated chute, such as a line over malfunction. Sometimes however, there are situations where either, the pack will not open, or not enough of the parachute is out to cause any drag to slow a jumpers decent, such as a horseshoe malfunction(You can easily Google images of these terms for pictures and diagrams). Skydivers of course always carry two parachutes, a main and a reserve. It is extremely rare for a jumper to impact the ground consciously and knowingly, without something out. This said, double total malfunctions, although rare, have occurred. Participants of many sports such as skiing, skating, skateboarding, long jumping etc, know to keep their limbs and joints bent. Knees, elbows, waist should be bent so that the body can buckle when it hits the ground displacing much of the force of impact. Skydivers of course know how to manipulate their body when they are falling. They can easily choose what position to land in as a jump from an average of 12500 ft takes a good 60 seconds or so. This can vary somewhat depending on body position and the amount of drag (or lack thereof) of a jumpsuit. Even at opening altitude around 2,000 ft a jumper has approximately 11 Seconds before impact. Once in position, not much effort needs to be made upon landing, as gravity and the bending of your joints do most of the work for you. Actually, relaxing your body decreases the likelihood of injury or death. As was stated in this video, those that survived, usually have their fall broken by something soft or had tree limbs or the like that helped decelerate them before impact. The plf would be just one more thing to increase your likelihood of survival. It certainly is no guarantee.
When I was young the Nicholas Alkemade story, also from WW2, was quite well-known. He crashed through trees and into a snowdrift. Probably forgotten now. I watch those air crash disasters shows which have given me enormous respect for the people who fly those things.
To be fair, crash happened over part of the country, that is now a Czech Republic. It might be slight hiccup during editing, but keep in mind, that Joe didn't specify, that shown part of the map is Czechoslovakia, just implied that crash happened in highlighted area of the map. Which it did.
I just found your channel 2 weeks ago and I'm amazed at all the different topics you cover. It's hard for me to get my husband to watch videos like this but even he enjoys your channel.
hey Joe. worked as a pilot in aerial survey and instruction for two years and recently got an airline job. just to let you know that according to the NTSB, more than 95% of people who have been in a plane crash survived it (55% in more serious accidents). So yes, even in the situation where there's an emergency, you'll probably be fine. That's why they train us so. damn. much. and then when you get the job it aint over. Recurrent training every 6 months, a bunch of CBT courses, yearly medicals (biannual after the age of 45), and an industry that is constantly scrutinizing EVERYTHING you do inside and outside the flight deck. It can make life quite stressful for pilots at times, but it does make us safe, even in bad situations. We train for everything from the mundane to the "only happens once every 300 years in the global fleet" type of scenarios. Don't scare people into thinking an emergency means they're screwed. Not only is it not true, it's a tiny bit insulting and degrading for us pilots. We dedicate our lives to the safety of our flights. We literally put our lives on the line so that people can travel for work and see their loved one. Trips that once before would have been impossible. love the videos. Find the link to the Flight Safety report below (It's a pfd download). flightsafety.org/fsd/fsd_oct01.pdf
Have been binge watching your videos - unfortunately my brain is wired so that nothing physics related makes any sense at all, but you are still hilarious and relay the information in a way that makes me want to see more! Thank you ☺
I had this topic on my mind for the past years since I started getting anxious about flying. Thanks, Joe! Now I hopefully can calm down and enjoy a glass of wine on the plane :D
I've always questioned the "water is like concrete to fall on because of it's incompressibility" theory. It's not about the incompressibility. It's about viscosity, ie how easily the molecules of water spread apart when a body attempts to seperate them. Mythbusters solidly demonstrated this
Thanks for yet another great video, Joe! (Equal parts education and entertainment as always). I was on a flight between Sacramento, CA and Portland, Oregon that experienced a major lightning strike about 10-15 mins after takeoff. We took off in the midst of a thunderstorm, which seemed a bit odd(?) The aircraft was still climbing at the time we took the hit. It was felt throughout the plane. I could feel the electrical charge in my scalp. The cabin lights went off and a stream of bright orange fireballs were flashing past the window where I was seated. The engines began screaming even louder than they had when we left the runway and it felt like we were rapidly losing altitude. I was traveling by myself so I was alone with my thoughts, which were surprisingly calm for the circumstances. I was thinking: "I've always heard that planes were designed to take lightning strikes - which supposedly are frequent, so whats up with this?" I also looked around at my fellow passengers and thought: "How weird. If I die today, I will be likely sharing that fate with a bunch of total strangers, which seems kind of sad." I guess I was so freaked out that my brain went into something like a "safe mode." After what seemed like an eternity, the plane regained power, stabilized and we ascended above the thunder clouds, entering blue sky and sunlight. About 15 mins later, the pilot(?) made an announcement. I'll never forget his words and how calm he sounded: "Ladies & gentlemen, uh, some of you might have noticed a while back, we experienced a.. er.. lightning strike. However, we do expect the remainder of the flight back to Portland International to be..er.. uneventful." That proved to be the case, but after landing and taxiing up to the gate, looking out the window, I saw several guys wearing coveralls running fast toward the section ahead, where it felt like the lightning had struck. It was around dusk by then and they were aiming large flashlights toward the underbelly. They were looking up at something that caused them to react with shock. Dramatic facial/body language. I badly wished I could have seen whatever it was they were looking at. The weird aftermath to this was seen a couple of days later at home, as I tried to watch the VHS / camcorder tape I'd recorded during that California trip. It was *totally* erased. There was no trace of the recordings that I'd previewed on the device before leaving. Nothing but "ant races" on that tape. (My camcorder had been stowed in its carrying case, beneath my seat on the plane.)
If this is not your highest rated video ever, there is no justice in the world. Too many awesome moments to mention. Flame, wine, etc.... ok, I’ll stop, but this was awesome.
I recently became aware that you and your videos exist. The rest of my day is going to be watching as many as I can, gunna get smart af! See you on the other side.
wait but if of the 42 that survived, 11 were outside the plane, that could mean that it is more likely to survive outside, since probably less than 1/4th of the people are outside the plane in freefalls of over 30k feet right?
As a skydiver myself the Bear Grills one is misleading "parachute failed to inflate" could mean anything, for him to have live means he probably had a significant amount of fabric above his head, half inflated which produced enough drag to survive the fall. It doesn't mean at all he came in with no working parachute. If that were the case, dude would have broken every bone and be dead on impact and made a dent in the ground. Parachutes inflate, they have "cells", compartments which are pressurized buy the difference in high and low pressure between the top and bottom of the canopy. The high-low pressure is generated by the fact that's it's flying forward (it's trimmed to do that), essentially it's a wing and the technical term is "ram-air parachute". So Bear Grylls had some of those cells like inflated (most common parachutes have 9 cells, some have 7 (like BASE chutes) and high performance chutes have 21 or 27).
told my sergeant that in Army, when he suggested Ranger training, which included parachuting. "I'm not going to jump out of a perfectly good airplane." He said "OK, but give me 50 (pushups) anyway"!!
I've found that was eases my anxiety while flying is to just confront the thought and think through a little. You have to realize that when you are in the air, it's out of your control. You can't get off, even if you wanted to so worrying about it is a pointless exercise. The worrying isn't going to change anything, you are in that tube and whatever is going to happen is going to happen. Just accepting that there is nothing you can do about it seems to settle the fear a lot. And also add in that the odds are pretty ridiculous.
Thanks for the video, I enjoy your content! However, there was an error about Everest. Actually, many climbers summit Everest without supplemental oxygen. It's called the death zone because you are slowly dying the entire time you are above that altitude due to the fact that it is impossible to fully acclimatize to such a low level of oxygen. Ideally you are dying at a slower rate than you are climbing so you have time to make it back down to sufficient oxygen before you get into trouble.
According to the internet, you stay conscious in a vacuum for 10-15 seconds, so that seems a reasonable amount of time to expect to stay conscious if the plane depressurizes.
0:12 - There actually is a lot of surviving going on. Only about 15% of all aircraft accidents result in the loss of life. So the chances of surviving an airplane accident are pretty good.
I spent most of my life working on machines and let me tell you, machines all eventually fail. Commercial airplanes are just complex machines waiting to fail.....i avoid them. I never felt so safe as i did in a 1937 New Standard airplane. The simplicity of the machine actually made me more confident that it wouldn't fall out of the sky.
According to the NTSB the survivability rate for airplane accidents is a high 95.7 percent. We tend to think of the really bad 100% fatal accidents as the norm, but of course that is not true.
My neighbor, a member of a skydiving team, fell at 20,000 feet. Broke nearly every bone in his body about a decade ago. He was back to doing jumps a year later.
Back in the early 80s I was taking a skydiving course (Ironic?) and I read of, I believe British, paratrooper that had a double failure. In other words his main chute failed to open and then his reserve failed to open. As he fell he realized that if he had any chance of survival he was going to have to perform a perfect parachute landing fall. So he concentrated on doing just that and ended up walking away with just a scrape on the knee.
What if everyone wore a parachute when they flew? Imagine that - being in an airplane crash would be just like getting in a car crash. There'd be tons of survivors.
So you fall out of of a plane over water, 2 options, 1st option head first instant death, 2nd option feet first umm you might survive but surely in absolute pain, probably no use of your feet and could drown while in the body of water, now you've got few minutes to decide which option suits you, ok there is the belly option, yikes
@@edwincusto On impact, I'd try feet first (pointing down) with my legs crossed as tightly as possible and arms up in the air, head back and face pointing towards the sky. In other words as vertically streamlined as I could be and hoping my balls don't get ripped off.
Wear a climbing harness under your suit. Carry a parachute in your carry on. If things go bad, plop that puppy on your lap and clip it to your climbing harness. If thing go from bad to worse, hug it tight, and if you find yourself falling through the sky, wait until AFTER you regain consciousness (about 15,000 feet), the wait even longer, until you're about 3,000 feet high (you can just begin to see tiny people) and pull the chute out of the bag. If it's freezing cold, roll up in the parachute for warmth. Start signal fires. Find water. Use a signal mirror to flag down help.
They used to show that story about the young lady that fell from 6 MILES and survived. It was called "Miracles Still Happen", or something like that. They used to show it on KTLA (Channel 5, Los Angeles) every year, but not anymore. Amazing story!
my nightmare is not falling, or plane crashes, but driving/rolling backwards on to a street in heavy traffic with my brakes failing!! Had it just last night :(
When you say that it is better to be inside the plane because most of the surviving people were inside the plane that's flawed logic. Most of the people were probably inside the plane to begin with...
Good point...no clue what the ratio would be or how to calculate that. One way to find out may be in WW2 records. They have numbers on plan crash and deaths
Huh? Everyone who's ever died in a plane crash was inside the plane, at some point. He's saying of all the recorded _survivors,_ the majority of them survived impact while inside of the plane. And I mean, duh! You have your cushioned seat and the body of the aircraft to help absorb some of the impact. If you ever find yourself free-falling from 30k feet, it's probably a better use of your time to pray to every god that's ever existed.
There was a popsci article about this exact topic like 6 years ago it's conclusion was basically sacrifice your good looks and fall face first, basically belly flop with your arms protecting your head and make sure to shatter your knee caps first on impact
This might seem weird, but I laughed out loud at this video more than any other from Joe Scott so far (mostly toward the end as he was describing how to survive).
Interestingly enough this video has not cured my fear of flying. In fact I’m now additionally terrified of a plane breaking apart at cruising altitude. Which isn’t something I was neurotic over before.. Thanks Joe!
Many years ago I was reading an article in Readers Digest (remember that?) about a B17 tail gunner whose plane was hit and on fire at night, during the winter over Germany. It's very tight in the tail with no room to wear a parachute, so his was on a hook further forward. Rather than burn to death, the airman jumped from the plane at over 16,000 feet and passed out. He awoke in a pine forest snowbank looking up to the trees that had slowed his fall. He was uninjured, but soon captured. The interrogating Germans thought he was a spy who had buried his chute. He told them what had happened and what his plane I.D. number was. The wreckage was found, along with his unused, burned parachute. The interrogator was so impressed that he reached into his desk drawer and gave the airman a candy bar, then sent him to a prison camp.
I got into aviation a couple years ago and watched these “flight channel” videos. One of them had the CVR audio from right before the crash. It was HORRIBLE to hear that.
Was going to jump out of plane without parachute tomorrow at company Christmas party to impressive girl in accounting. Thank God I stumble upon this video. Thank you Joe! You are the best.
the other thing to bear in mind is planes get checked every flight (for the most part) and it's not just kicking the tyres and checking the oil, it's like going for a service every day.
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That is the high flying, hard hitting content I'm subscribed for. This subject is just plane difficult to cover but you decided to wing it and stuck the landing. I mean chute, I'd rather jump out of a perfectly good airbus than crash and burn trying to soften the blow when telling someone their flights canceled... Mid air.
Nice
I think this comment went right over peoples heads...
You live a life of sin
10/10 puns are unappreciated
These are the clever pun constructions I scour old comment sections for. 🤔😂💚
A very down-to-earth approach to this subject, thanks!
LOL
Hey, down-to-earth! Like falling from a plane! You just made an accidental pun!
Cordle Fhrichter I don’t think that was an accident ;)
I think you are making fun of the gravity of the situation.
@@simoc24 It was clearly an accident.
Flap your arms reeeeeeeeeeally fast.
Doe that really work?
Dunno, roll a 20.
Onno Inada: Maybe it would work. I remember when the Pink Panther was in a shed that was plummetting from a very high cliff. Just before the shed shattered on the ground Mr. Panther stepped out and came out with nary a scratch.
LOL!
Grab an umbrella and hope for the best
My uncle was in the Brazilian Navy parachute regiment and survived twice, apparently in both situations he had some trouble with his chute. Both cases he sustained horrible injuries, but now his fine, and lives in the U.S. in the state of Washington
you mean in the state of GRACE
Hey now washington is pretty awesome if you love nature!
Brazil?Im gonna jump outa an airplane when the chute was packed in Brazil?Im gonna Dance and get liquored in Brazil but I aint jumpin from no Plane in Brazil brudda
I'm in Washington!
He's not fine, he must have a lot of permanent pain
A long time ago I worker with a laborer boss named Jack Hare if my
memory serves me who was a guy that never ever got mad or frustrated.
one day I asked him his secret to his demeanor. He told me that in ww2
he was a tail gunner in B17s and his airplane was hit by a flack burst
at 10000 ft. and was burning. unable to get to his chute threw the
flames he made a decision tho jump threw his blown away canopy rather
than be burned to death. Falling from 10000ft to his certain death he
was calm and at peace. Dyeing was something that you accepted in the job
he was doing so he enjoyed the trip down. as it turned out a perfect
combination of circumstances Winter snow ,mountain slops , pine trees
acted like a big break to save his life. Uninjured he was later captured
and interrogated. The Germans thought he might of buried important
papers with his chute and performed a search He told them Americans
don't need chutes. He spent the rest of the war in a prison camp. So I
asked what this have to do with my question and he replied that he
should have died that day and so the rest of his life was extra so no
reason to ever be bothered by life IT WAS ALL GOOD!
James E. Wagner Jr. That reminds me of the time when I fell out of my gunship while flying over Iraq. I flapped my arms super fast and landed with a bellyflop into the sand. I was promptly surrounded by ISIS fighters who captured me and tried to behead me. Luckily, their knife was too dull to cut through my tough neck skin which had been calloused by the fall and years of neck chokes in martial arts.
Later that night I was able to snap the fetters that bound me and proceeded to ambush the guards while asleep. I wrote a message to ISIS in the blood of my captors upon the wall that read "America is the land of freedom and heroes". After trekking what felt like a thousand miles, I finally arrived at an American outpost beaten, bloodied, but not defeated.
After finishing 2 more tours, I finally flew home to be with my loving family and friends again and I was free to tell my heroic story. But nobody believes it. Anyway, this is why I'm able to remain so super calm and cool in the face of insurmountable odds and imminent perils just like your buddy does, in case you were wondering.
The New Talker Guy I really hope this is true! Just knowing the strength and resilience of humans as a species makes me feel more peaceful about the future. Because hell you surviving that shit makes all my problems so small in comparison, that I know I got this :)
Reading that was like pulling teeth
Americans don't need parachutes. I wonder if this might have started some cult in a small town in that area.
Good story… as old Mr. Mitchell would say “ Never let the truth get in the way of a good story”
This, like "stop, drop and roll" and quicksand, was something I really expected would be more of an issue growing up than it actually turned out to be.
You stole that joke.
From John Mulaney, specifically.
I live in the Sonoran desert in Arizona and quicksand is still a legit fear. I always make my wife walk in front of me when we are hiking. I tell her it's because I like watching her butt in those sexy shorts and hiking boots. MMMM that sounds nice.
Yes it is a joke. Waifu doesn't walk when a gentleman can carry her. LOL I'm all alone.
Mr. Scott you are awesome sir. I laugh more with every video and love the information you provide. Next time I am falling to my death out of a plane I will be thinking of you sir. Much appreciated!
what about austinmconnel's vid on this subject? its only 4 min long
Any topic that leads you into doing an impression of Werner Herzog is something we love. "There is no harmony in the universe..."
*Its bold of you to assume that I want to survive...*
*_All around me are familiar faces...warn out places...._*
Did you just assume my life?
Gudako stop pls
Thanks for a chuckle in the morning.
Great now to overcome my high anxiety I will do my best to become a small child.
Let me know if you manage to pull it off; adulthood sucks. ¬_¬
ok, Ben Button!
He's actually onto something. Smaller bodies are more aerodynamic. Gravity works slower in falling from great distances. The downside is being too small to have as much physical control. The downside is why height requirements are enforced at theme parks.
@@DaJesster0405 yes, and they don't want the kiddies to slip out from under that big retaining bar on your belly. I have no problems whatsoever in that regard! LOL :D
NO,just stop acting like a small child and getting into a tizzy
The girl in the rainforest is an amazing story. That chick was as cool as a cucumber. Absolute balls of steel.
What balls? lol
@@SukacitaYeremia Balls like in Tits of steel ofc
You mean "nerves"?
@@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842 uh.. yeah. Dang autocorrect.
Ovaries are the female counterpart to testes. Or, you could just say gonads, which is the generic term for both.
One of my favorite videos of all time. Have shown it to so many people. Living in a fly-in only Alaskan village, I think about this video every time I fly on one of those tiny little death traps (almost everyone here has been in multiple plane crashes)
I'm a skydiver and I travel with my parachute sometimes. I get weird looks from people when I'm boarding a plane wearing my rig. :)
On the subject of falling: It takes about 1000 feet to reach terminal velocity, so it doesn't matter if you fall 1000ft or 30000ft, the end result is the same.
"i'll stop being scared to fly when people stop applauding when we land" I totally forgot where i saw this
I've flown dozens of times and never seen people clap. Are you an American? is it an American thing? That'd be too funny.
@@part-timepartytime9621 I'm not american, It's definitly not a regular thing to do...
@@chinchenping only seen it once, clapping, when landing in heavy fog, and runway running out, USA pilot dropped plane down from a higher height than usual, thus saving us, albeit rattled, ……….just a teeny weeny bit. :D
I'm the son of a retired commercial pilot, so I feel like I've been on ... a lot of airplanes. I've only seen people clap twice. Once on my dad's retirement trip, and once when the landing was *incredibly* smooth. Like, to the point that I didn't know we had touched down.
@@KipColeman love those ones. I flew a lot for my job, not as a pilot. We did aerial surveys of wildlife, in small planes, Cessna Sky Wagon mostly it was. Pilot, Brian, would always, and I mean ALWAYS, say as we landed and taxied to the hanger: "Well, we cheated death, one more time." "Gee thanks, Brian, can't wait for next flight", I'd say!!! But I'm here!!!. So, thanks, Brian, wherever you are! :)
I'm new to your channel so this past week I've been watching in the morning while I get ready for work thanks for making my mornings a little more interesting thanks Joe
Cool! Welcome to the comments section!
Where are you from, Mace?
Same
@@livethefuture2492 better than kipper fish, eh?
My favorite Joe Scott video of all time, not to mention one of my favorite videos EVER. Those segues lol
Okay, I'm not a physicist, nor am I a doctor. However, I am a skydiver. We were always taught to land in a PLF (parachute Landing fall). Balls of the feet, calves, thigh, hip, side, shoulder, roll with head, arms and legs tucked in and repeat as often as necessary. I was always taught this was the best chance of surviving and reducing chance of injury regardless whether my parachute was fully open, partially open or not open at all. I have seen fellow skydivers hit really, really hard and not necessarily walk away, but came out alive using a PLF. I hope you don't need this information, but there it is.
Susse Kind my wife flew skydiver as a part time job for a while...PLF is the way the go :) hope you never need it of course
I'm not really sure how you're supposed to perform this when you fall without a chute. The entire ordeal will be over in literally like 500 milliseconds.
Mythricia you have a few minutes.......
I'll copy this and put in my wallet. Hope it's not covered in shit and piss when I need it though :D
@@Mythricia1988 This information is given to students when they go through ground school before they ever even make their first jump. Usually this procedure is used when either you have a fully open Chute, but are landing in an unfortunate way, for example high-speed down wind Landing, or when a jumper has a partially inflated chute, such as a line over malfunction. Sometimes however, there are situations where either, the pack will not open, or not enough of the parachute is out to cause any drag to slow a jumpers decent, such as a horseshoe malfunction(You can easily Google images of these terms for pictures and diagrams). Skydivers of course always carry two parachutes, a main and a reserve. It is extremely rare for a jumper to impact the ground consciously and knowingly, without something out. This said, double total malfunctions, although rare, have occurred.
Participants of many sports such as skiing, skating, skateboarding, long jumping etc, know to keep their limbs and joints bent. Knees, elbows, waist should be bent so that the body can buckle when it hits the ground displacing much of the force of impact. Skydivers of course know how to manipulate their body when they are falling. They can easily choose what position to land in as a jump from an average of 12500 ft takes a good 60 seconds or so. This can vary somewhat depending on body position and the amount of drag (or lack thereof) of a jumpsuit. Even at opening altitude around 2,000 ft a jumper has approximately 11 Seconds before impact. Once in position, not much effort needs to be made upon landing, as gravity and the bending of your joints do most of the work for you. Actually, relaxing your body decreases the likelihood of injury or death.
As was stated in this video, those that survived, usually have their fall broken by something soft or had tree limbs or the like that helped decelerate them before impact. The plf would be just one more thing to increase your likelihood of survival. It certainly is no guarantee.
When I was young the Nicholas Alkemade story, also from WW2, was quite well-known. He crashed through trees and into a snowdrift. Probably forgotten now. I watch those air crash disasters shows which have given me enormous respect for the people who fly those things.
Joe, I have been watching your videos for about 5 months now, and i find the content you churn out absolutely great. Keep it up!
the vocabulary your churning out is smooth as butter
that was bad
You do the Bugs Bunny thing! Step out of the door right before the plane hits the ground. Simple Looney Tunes physics.
Bugs Bunny told Serious Sam once that he never studied physics.
Exit... Stage left. Was a cat with a cane and hat. Or rather , a tiger.
sees title "How To Survive A Fall From An Airplane"
*Skips, this makes no sense.
Sees it's actually Joe Scott channel
*Oh wait, this must make sense.
The story of the woman landing in the Amazon is just the most inspirational story I’ve ever heard! You guys need to watch her documentary!
5:30 No no no,
You are saying Czechoslovakia and showing map where Czech Republic and Slovakia are already split and highlighting Czech republic.
To be fair, crash happened over part of the country, that is now a Czech Republic. It might be slight hiccup during editing, but keep in mind, that Joe didn't specify, that shown part of the map is Czechoslovakia, just implied that crash happened in highlighted area of the map. Which it did.
really dude
@@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842 A Check Republic? I thought there was only one?
I just found your channel 2 weeks ago and I'm amazed at all the different topics you cover. It's hard for me to get my husband to watch videos like this but even he enjoys your channel.
Thanks Joe, you just saved my life
Damn I love you channel...best on the net. My wife and I look forward to every release and rewatching all the classics! Rock on man.
Betcha’ that video blows up, it was another awesome one! Thanks for sharing Joe
Thanks Joe always enjoy the videos.
*Can't die from a plane crash if you're already dead*
(Being dead inside counts as already being dead right?)
Edgy
no
maybe
yes
Yeap What is dead may never die
Joe, your videos get better every week. Thank you for the content. I truly mean it.
Does continuous farting be considered as jet propulsion?
Sure, if you identify as a jet.
Look for movie "Thunderpants" (best movie ever) and You'll know the answer. Spoiler alert...Yes it will be!
hey Joe. worked as a pilot in aerial survey and instruction for two years and recently got an airline job. just to let you know that according to the NTSB, more than 95% of people who have been in a plane crash survived it (55% in more serious accidents). So yes, even in the situation where there's an emergency, you'll probably be fine. That's why they train us so. damn. much. and then when you get the job it aint over. Recurrent training every 6 months, a bunch of CBT courses, yearly medicals (biannual after the age of 45), and an industry that is constantly scrutinizing EVERYTHING you do inside and outside the flight deck. It can make life quite stressful for pilots at times, but it does make us safe, even in bad situations. We train for everything from the mundane to the "only happens once every 300 years in the global fleet" type of scenarios. Don't scare people into thinking an emergency means they're screwed. Not only is it not true, it's a tiny bit insulting and degrading for us pilots. We dedicate our lives to the safety of our flights. We literally put our lives on the line so that people can travel for work and see their loved one. Trips that once before would have been impossible. love the videos. Find the link to the Flight Safety report below (It's a pfd download).
flightsafety.org/fsd/fsd_oct01.pdf
Another happy landing
Hello there
Have been binge watching your videos - unfortunately my brain is wired so that nothing physics related makes any sense at all, but you are still hilarious and relay the information in a way that makes me want to see more! Thank you ☺
I had this topic on my mind for the past years since I started getting anxious about flying. Thanks, Joe! Now I hopefully can calm down and enjoy a glass of wine on the plane :D
I've always questioned the "water is like concrete to fall on because of it's incompressibility" theory. It's not about the incompressibility. It's about viscosity, ie how easily the molecules of water spread apart when a body attempts to seperate them. Mythbusters solidly demonstrated this
People always say flying is safer than driving. You also fly less than you drive
Thanks for yet another great video, Joe! (Equal parts education and entertainment as always).
I was on a flight between Sacramento, CA and Portland, Oregon that experienced a major lightning strike about 10-15 mins after takeoff. We took off in the midst of a thunderstorm, which seemed a bit odd(?) The aircraft was still climbing at the time we took the hit. It was felt throughout the plane. I could feel the electrical charge in my scalp. The cabin lights went off and a stream of bright orange fireballs were flashing past the window where I was seated. The engines began screaming even louder than they had when we left the runway and it felt like we were rapidly losing altitude. I was traveling by myself so I was alone with my thoughts, which were surprisingly calm for the circumstances. I was thinking: "I've always heard that planes were designed to take lightning strikes - which supposedly are frequent, so whats up with this?" I also looked around at my fellow passengers and thought: "How weird. If I die today, I will be likely sharing that fate with a bunch of total strangers, which seems kind of sad." I guess I was so freaked out that my brain went into something like a "safe mode."
After what seemed like an eternity, the plane regained power, stabilized and we ascended above the thunder clouds, entering blue sky and sunlight. About 15 mins later, the pilot(?) made an announcement. I'll never forget his words and how calm he sounded: "Ladies & gentlemen, uh, some of you might have noticed a while back, we experienced a.. er.. lightning strike. However, we do expect the remainder of the flight back to Portland International to be..er.. uneventful." That proved to be the case, but after landing and taxiing up to the gate, looking out the window, I saw several guys wearing coveralls running fast toward the section ahead, where it felt like the lightning had struck. It was around dusk by then and they were aiming large flashlights toward the underbelly. They were looking up at something that caused them to react with shock. Dramatic facial/body language. I badly wished I could have seen whatever it was they were looking at. The weird aftermath to this was seen a couple of days later at home, as I tried to watch the VHS / camcorder tape I'd recorded during that California trip. It was *totally* erased. There was no trace of the recordings that I'd previewed on the device before leaving. Nothing but "ant races" on that tape.
(My camcorder had been stowed in its carrying case, beneath my seat on the plane.)
"Trees are better than rocks" - Joe Scott, 2018.
If this is not your highest rated video ever, there is no justice in the world. Too many awesome moments to mention. Flame, wine, etc.... ok, I’ll stop, but this was awesome.
They gotta drop some crash test dummies from airplanes to test the best position to hit the ground in.
I recently became aware that you and your videos exist. The rest of my day is going to be watching as many as I can, gunna get smart af! See you on the other side.
wait but if of the 42 that survived, 11 were outside the plane, that could mean that it is more likely to survive outside, since probably less than 1/4th of the people are outside the plane in freefalls of over 30k feet right?
@Dante S Don't worry about the second and third until you complete the first...
As a skydiver myself the Bear Grills one is misleading "parachute failed to inflate" could mean anything, for him to have live means he probably had a significant amount of fabric above his head, half inflated which produced enough drag to survive the fall. It doesn't mean at all he came in with no working parachute. If that were the case, dude would have broken every bone and be dead on impact and made a dent in the ground. Parachutes inflate, they have "cells", compartments which are pressurized buy the difference in high and low pressure between the top and bottom of the canopy. The high-low pressure is generated by the fact that's it's flying forward (it's trimmed to do that), essentially it's a wing and the technical term is "ram-air parachute". So Bear Grylls had some of those cells like inflated (most common parachutes have 9 cells, some have 7 (like BASE chutes) and high performance chutes have 21 or 27).
Always carry your personal parachute...#PUBG
Or just board the plane with a squirrel suit on.
GodDAMN am I glad I stumbled across this channel. Joe my friend, you sir are the shit. 👏
Answer: dont jump of from the airplane
No, i disagree
If you had been in some of the airplanes I've been in, you would rethink your position. Of course I had a parachute...
told my sergeant that in Army, when he suggested Ranger training, which included parachuting. "I'm not going to jump out of a perfectly good airplane." He said "OK, but give me 50 (pushups) anyway"!!
Unless you have a parachute.
I've found that was eases my anxiety while flying is to just confront the thought and think through a little. You have to realize that when you are in the air, it's out of your control. You can't get off, even if you wanted to so worrying about it is a pointless exercise. The worrying isn't going to change anything, you are in that tube and whatever is going to happen is going to happen. Just accepting that there is nothing you can do about it seems to settle the fear a lot. And also add in that the odds are pretty ridiculous.
With a LOT of accrued good kamma.
Thanks for the video, I enjoy your content! However, there was an error about Everest. Actually, many climbers summit Everest without supplemental oxygen. It's called the death zone because you are slowly dying the entire time you are above that altitude due to the fact that it is impossible to fully acclimatize to such a low level of oxygen. Ideally you are dying at a slower rate than you are climbing so you have time to make it back down to sufficient oxygen before you get into trouble.
Think happy thoughts :)
William Weeks
What of the fairy dust?😂😂
@@nanakwakudadeyakrofi2977 For fairy dust, I recommend travelling with a max 100ml plastic bottle (to meet flight security regulations)
According to the internet, you stay conscious in a vacuum for 10-15 seconds, so that seems a reasonable amount of time to expect to stay conscious if the plane depressurizes.
Omg joe you are soo funny 😂
0:12 - There actually is a lot of surviving going on. Only about 15% of all aircraft accidents result in the loss of life. So the chances of surviving an airplane accident are pretty good.
_Arresto Momentum!_
To ensure your safety always bring a flight suit on board, that or a parachute
"...and then she made a full recovery and went back to being a flight attendant". Damn... the balls on this woman.
Not really, she didn't remember anything when she woke up so was spared the mind trauma.
I spent most of my life working on machines and let me tell you, machines all eventually fail. Commercial airplanes are just complex machines waiting to fail.....i avoid them. I never felt so safe as i did in a 1937 New Standard airplane. The simplicity of the machine actually made me more confident that it wouldn't fall out of the sky.
i hope this video mentions vesna vulovic btw
Lol! My daughter loved your "comforting" intro 😂😂
According to the NTSB the survivability rate for airplane accidents is a high 95.7 percent. We tend to think of the really bad 100% fatal accidents as the norm, but of course that is not true.
www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Documents/SR0101.pdf
Absolutely!@@texmex9721
with my luck I'd be in the 4.3 percent or more likely the 0 percent :(
Most people survive car accidents too. But the term "accident" is pretty broad. It covers a lot of levels of airplane damage and/or injury.
@@fakshen1973 Correct, and if the maker of the video had stated most car accidents were fatal, (as he did with aircraft 0:10) that would be relevant.
My neighbor, a member of a skydiving team, fell at 20,000 feet. Broke nearly every bone in his body about a decade ago. He was back to doing jumps a year later.
Put your tray table up! And your seat back in the full upright position!
Back in the early 80s I was taking a skydiving course (Ironic?) and I read of, I believe British, paratrooper that had a double failure. In other words his main chute failed to open and then his reserve failed to open. As he fell he realized that if he had any chance of survival he was going to have to perform a perfect parachute landing fall. So he concentrated on doing just that and ended up walking away with just a scrape on the knee.
Probably having a at least one parachute.
amirite guys?
What if everyone wore a parachute when they flew? Imagine that - being in an airplane crash would be just like getting in a car crash. There'd be tons of survivors.
They don't even put seat-belts in school-busses; also they don't even give you free peanuts, let alone a parachute. :-\
I'm definitely on board with parachutes under every seat, right beside the flotation devices
Another amazing video helping to spread science and education!! Thank you for being the awesome person you are!! Many blessing!!
So you fall out of of a plane over water, 2 options, 1st option head first instant death, 2nd option feet first umm you might survive but surely in absolute pain, probably no use of your feet and could drown while in the body of water, now you've got few minutes to decide which option suits you, ok there is the belly option, yikes
Butt first.
@@cordlefhrichter1520 something you really don't need I guess, though ouch lolz
@@edwincusto On impact, I'd try feet first (pointing down) with my legs crossed as tightly as possible and arms up in the air, head back and face pointing towards the sky. In other words as vertically streamlined as I could be and hoping my balls don't get ripped off.
Wear a climbing harness under your suit. Carry a parachute in your carry on. If things go bad, plop that puppy on your lap and clip it to your climbing harness. If thing go from bad to worse, hug it tight, and if you find yourself falling through the sky, wait until AFTER you regain consciousness (about 15,000 feet), the wait even longer, until you're about 3,000 feet high (you can just begin to see tiny people) and pull the chute out of the bag.
If it's freezing cold, roll up in the parachute for warmth. Start signal fires. Find water. Use a signal mirror to flag down help.
..And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice.."
Very useful survival tips ... IF i could remember all that ... one my way down, either passed out, or screaming my head off!
I would survive I would restart the game
GAME OVER!!!!!
They used to show that story about the young lady that fell from 6 MILES and survived. It was called "Miracles Still Happen", or something like that. They used to show it on KTLA (Channel 5, Los Angeles) every year, but not anymore. Amazing story!
Thanks for the nightmare fuel....
Fly safely.
my nightmare is not falling, or plane crashes, but driving/rolling backwards on to a street in heavy traffic with my brakes failing!! Had it just last night :(
You so totally have a gift for educating and explaining your thoughts to others.
This was some weird but very interesting subject.
When you say that it is better to be inside the plane because most of the surviving people were inside the plane that's flawed logic. Most of the people were probably inside the plane to begin with...
You got the statistics on that?
Good point...no clue what the ratio would be or how to calculate that. One way to find out may be in WW2 records. They have numbers on plan crash and deaths
Huh? Everyone who's ever died in a plane crash was inside the plane, at some point. He's saying of all the recorded _survivors,_ the majority of them survived impact while inside of the plane.
And I mean, duh! You have your cushioned seat and the body of the aircraft to help absorb some of the impact. If you ever find yourself free-falling from 30k feet, it's probably a better use of your time to pray to every god that's ever existed.
I don't have the statistics but 31/43 is 72%. If more than 72% of the people remain inside the plane then it means it's better to be outside.
@@Merto6 Oh, now I get it. Derp.
Good one Joe👍
Really educative
Don't think I'll volunteer for that one.
It is possible to carry you self a small parachute inside of plane. A paragliding pilots use some small emergence parachute, it will be a perfect one.
Watches the near death video again
“You dayed!” Love it! Keep it up!
The ballgunner who fell 4 miles and survived...and all he got was a certificate
Still better than a bullet to the head, considering he landed in enemy territory...
From the NAZI'S
There was a popsci article about this exact topic like 6 years ago it's conclusion was basically sacrifice your good looks and fall face first, basically belly flop with your arms protecting your head and make sure to shatter your knee caps first on impact
How to survive:
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I am new to this channel and i am amazed with the high quality content on each topic.
Keep it up bro
I hear the only thing real that Bear guy did was take that 16,000 foot drop . Even then you can't help but to call B.S ............
Absolutely!!
If he told me we were in for a heatwave I'd grab an umbrella.
Your first 45 seconds is the same battle I have with myself every time I fly. How is this metal tube this far up in the sky !!!!
This might seem weird, but I laughed out loud at this video more than any other from Joe Scott so far (mostly toward the end as he was describing how to survive).
Nice use of comedy tied in throughout the video to keep it light 👍🏼
Interestingly enough this video has not cured my fear of flying. In fact I’m now additionally terrified of a plane breaking apart at cruising altitude. Which isn’t something I was neurotic over before.. Thanks Joe!
I just cannot wait to try this!!!
The turd forming in your pants was the absolute funniest! Made my day. Love your vids
Awesome video as always! But how could you forget about Nick Alkemade?
Great work Joe, loved every single second.
Many years ago I was reading an article in Readers Digest (remember that?) about a B17 tail gunner whose plane was hit and on fire at night, during the winter over Germany. It's very tight in the tail with no room to wear a parachute, so his was on a hook further forward. Rather than burn to death, the airman jumped from the plane at over 16,000 feet and passed out. He awoke in a pine forest snowbank looking up to the trees that had slowed his fall. He was uninjured, but soon captured. The interrogating Germans thought he was a spy who had buried his chute. He told them what had happened and what his plane I.D. number was. The wreckage was found, along with his unused, burned parachute. The interrogator was so impressed that he reached into his desk drawer and gave the airman a candy bar, then sent him to a prison camp.
9:45 your acting like I wouldn't already be puckered up 😂
Watching this while waiting for a flight. Great
I got into aviation a couple years ago and watched these “flight channel” videos. One of them had the CVR audio from right before the crash. It was HORRIBLE to hear that.
Was going to jump out of plane without parachute tomorrow at company Christmas party to impressive girl in accounting. Thank God I stumble upon this video. Thank you Joe! You are the best.
forget the girl in accounting, go for the one in the stock room, you can close the door there!
Surprisingly, pleasant, thoughtful, and intriguing, treatment! Subscribed!
the other thing to bear in mind is planes get checked every flight (for the most part) and it's not just kicking the tyres and checking the oil, it's like going for a service every day.