Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
I can't and neither, I suspect, can you. How deep was the wingtip underground at this angle between seat 12c and the wheel?
What says spinal damage has to be in line with seat 12c and the wheel anyway?
Who says what angle you were sitting at?
You could get spinal damage anywhere in the plane with enough g, regardless of angles between seats and wheels.
And once again, an impact sufficient to damage spinal vertebrae is going to be associated with a major engineering problem. That there clearly was not one is a pretty convincing argument that this injury was not/could not have been caused by the landing you've referred to.
Why was no one else affected, even slightly?
As a plane in a first landing attempt hit a ground just with the right main gear a force that was transmitted trough the landing gear and plane frame is transmitted to the human body from the same direction. In a same moment the plane start to drift to the right side so you have also rotational force tending to twist a spine to the right putting a spine out of balance, disabling a core muscles from they role to stabilize the spine, all the the pressure stays on the spinal discs for a next seconds till a plane take off again. Discs bulge, herniate on a point of the biggest pressure if they can't withstand the force and that is the one from which the force is applied. For this is important the position and point of impact, distance from the seat to the gear, weight of the plane, speed, total time that plane stayed on a single gear, horizontal rotation of the plane.... From a flightaware data you can see that this was not quite a normal landing.