Xenia,
Thanks for the response, and again I apologise if my approach caused offence.
However, in fact you can go back and see that what I said was: "In the last couple of years I have spent as much of my life in planes as many cabin crew so I think that my safety there is something on which I have the right to an opinion. "
That is somewhat different from claiming to know as much as you do, which is not something I have said. And just to put some figures on it, for example, in calendar year 2000 I flew 182 sectors on 16 different airlines.
So anyway, can we close the question of my attitude, and return the the topic, on which I very respectfully ask the assembled experts...
1) Does anyone have any online sources for data on ditching of commercial jets?
2) Given mainfrog2's comments about locker burst, does anyone know what special measures, if any, BA had to take for their new business class where 50% of the seats face backwards?
3) (this is at least partly tongue-in-cheek) can anyone confirm that the main benefit of the brace position is that it gets the heads below the level of the top of the seats and therefore keeps the teeth close to the rest of the remains to facilitate identifaction, rather than having mass decapitation and more of a jigsaw puzzle?
