Originally Posted by
WHBM
Do those side-facing double-deck seats in the photo above have seat belts ? Are they not just intended for paratroops ?
Conventional seats, whether forward or rear-facing, provide significant deceleration protection, the forward-facing ones from the seat unit directly ahead, in addition to the harnesses. Side-facing cannot provide the first, and if there are no harnesses not the second either.
It's not yet known if the crashed AC was equiped with those facing "seats" or conventional ones or a mix.
In an agency report I read about "military men, their families and equipment" and this phrase may mean a lot of different possibilities. With no specific references we cannot make conjectures about what could happen.
And being Algeria, forget to have CERTAIN data about what happened...