Hi,
Originally Posted by fyrefli
Think you probably need to google flail injuries (or similar). Seems perfectly consistent to me (says someone lucky enough to have survived flail chest and a catalogue of other injuries in a high-speed smash nine months ago)
Sorry about the misunderstanding, but my point was to address the "Brazilian + degloving" part comment of Bearfoil's post, not the "flail chest injuries"... hence those three dots for not repeating myself.
Nowaday, I posted this interview in order to correct some rumors about those supposed "Brazilians leaks" (from press) as I'm not sure if this analysis is really that meaningfull inside this crash context (the "survivability" and "brace for impact" comment may seem a bit overstretched). I'm still waiting for any relevant forensic aircrash specialists comments to be published about it.
Nonetheless, the lack of cabin "preparation" for ditching doesn't mean anything about an
unlikely last minute attempt to ditch it. No life jackets used or even the recovery of those empty cabin crew seats doesn't rule it out.
One may look at Sullenberger's case and notice that communication with the cabin was barely nil until the last seconds of the flight before ditching, even if the decision to ditch in the Hudson was already taken a few minutes earlier. It seems that no passenger ever had enough time to find and wear its life jacket when the "brace for impact" order came from the captain's call. The crew workload in dealing (incompletely) with those checklists and flying the aircraft prevented it.
In AF447 case, three out of the nine FA cabin crew should have been resting in the dedicated FA module - hence, it is possible to have free FA seats in the cabin. It is not even sure that the cockpit-cabin interphone could have been operated from the cockpit in case of EMER ELEC or that pilots were not already full hands with their attempt to keep it flying - like trying to relight their engines.
In fact, ditching could have been an option in the Hudson, but I don't think it was contemplated in the middle of the Atlantic ocean until the very last seconds, if they were running out of sky and speed.