FACTS ABOUT CRASHES YOU MIGHT FIND HARD TO BELIEVE

IN 2010, A SMALL PLANE IN THE DEMOCRATIC

REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO CRASHED BECAUSE

THERE WAS A CROCODILE ON BOARD. ONE OF THE

PASSENGERS HAD HIDDEN THE CROCODILE ON

BOARD IN HOPES OF SMUGGLING IT AND SELLING IT.

WHEN IT GOT FREE, IT CAUSED A STAMPEDE IN THE

CABIN THAT PUT THE PLANE OFF BALANCE AND

CAUSED IT TO CRASH

THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR A DRIVER TO BE

INVOLVED IN A CRASH IS ON THE WEEKEND

BETWEEN 12 AM AND 3 AM

BEGUN IN 1952, THE AUTOMOTIVE CRASH INJURY

RESEARCH CENTRE INITIALLY STARTED DOING

ITS CRASH TESTS WITH CORPSES INSTEAD OF DUMMIES

IN 1954, ERNEST HEMINGWAY SURVIVED A PLANE

CRASH…AND THEN SURVIVED ANOTHER ONE THE NEXT DAY

IN 1996, HIJACKERS TOOK OVER ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES

FLIGHT 961 TO NAIROBI FROM ADDIS ABABA.

THEY WANTED TO SEEK REFUGE IN AUSTRALIA

AND TOLD THE PILOT TO FLY THERE ALTHOUGH

HE SAID THEY WOULDN'T MAKE IT. AFTER RUNNING

OUT OF FUEL THE PLANE CRASHED IN THE WATER.

ALTHOUGH THE PILOT DID AN EXCELLENT JOB

CONTROLLING THE DESCENT, NUMEROUS

PASSENGERS DIED ONLY BECAUSE THEY

INFLATED THEIR LIFE VESTS TOO SOON AND

THEN COULDN'T GET OUT OF THE AIRPLANE

THE INITIAL SCRIPT FOR ANCHOR-MAN INVOLVED

A BUNCH OF NEWS REPORTERS WHO CRASHED

IN THE MOUNTAINS AND THEN DISCOVERED THE

PLANE THEY CRASHED IN HELD TWO THINGS,

MONKEYS AND MARTIAL ARTS EQUIPMENT.

THE REST OF THE STORY WAS A BATTLE OF

SURVIVAL AND YOU CAN PROBABLY GUESS

WHY THE SCRIPT CHANGED

POPULAR MECHANICS DID A STUDY ON EVERY

COMMERCIAL PLANE CRASH SINCE 1971 AND FOUND

THAT THE FARTHER BACK YOU SIT, THE BETTER

YOUR CHANCES OF SURVIVAL IN A CRASH. WHILE

THE SURVIVAL RATE FOR BUSINESS CLASS

PASSENGERS WAS 49%, THE SURVIVAL RATE

FOR THOSE IN THE BACK WAS 69%

THE MAJORITY OF ACCIDENTS TAKE PLACE

WITHIN 3 MILES OF THE DRIVER'S HOME