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Old 8th Sep 2010, 03:35
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Fractures of the pelvis combined with compression fractures of the spine point to much higher levels of vertical acceleration than experienced in an ejection seat.
Correct. Maybe I was not sufficiently clear in my earlier post.

Ejection seats will sometimes cause lumbar vertebral crush fractures but certainly not a fractured pelvis. Not in a young adult male anyway.

At even lower G levels than an ejection seat, you might find a few fractures among a couple of hundred heterogeneous people on a passenger aircraft. However the very high prevalence of these injuries among the recovered bodies here does suggest much higher forces than this.
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