KTF, fyi, the flight deck crew are all dead. They all had 5 point harnesses.
The passengers, most of them, survived, they had a lap strap.
The cabin crew have rearward facing seats and it is unclear how badly injured they are.
A note from f40 made me think that the harness had a role to play in the deaths of the flight deck crew.
The passengers in the forward rows were subjected to the same decelleration and downwards vectors but their upper bodies were unrestrained, so flying forwards and down at impact, so absorbing some of the effective energy.
The flight crew were restrained with their five point harnesses and held in the vertical position so the internal organs were subjected to mainly vertical, downwards force, enough to cause sufficient internal damage to kill them.
Sad, however it happened.
Last edited by rubik101; 5th Mar 2009 at 01:01.