Originally Posted by
NineEighteen
I distinctly remember some serious braking after touchdown. Felt like mechanical braking. It was so extreme that some of the passenger seats backs tipped all the way forward.
Standard on Soviet types, the seat backs were designed to tip forward, to make it easy to get in and out of the window seats. Doesn't impact on the crash resistance of them at all - think about the mechanics of it, both with and without a passenger in them. In fact, it makes an emergency evacuation easier.