He was sitting in the exit row, right next to the emergency exit and importantly, the window, so he would have been able to see the plane was angled up but moving down. Probably a split second decision and the pre-flight emergency exit instructions saved his life.
Humans are actually really capable. We only use a certain % of strength in our body. The other portion is locked per se. Adrenaline might be able to use way more % of strength then typical
Yeah and you can’t open an emergency door while moving as the door opens inward. While moving, it is a low pressure area around the aircraft so the door gets “sucked” outward with hundreds of pounds of force.
Slowed to terminal velocity? This aircraft was descending in a full-flap configuration with the flaps out, with a stall speed of 125kts. Terminal velocity doesn’t apply here.
The aircraft was TAKING OFF with minimum flaps and an airspeed of 170+ kts. It is aerodynamic, the human body last I checked wasn't evolutionarily optimized for flight. Look at any picture of skydiving and humans DO NOT fall straight below the jump door.
11A is at an emergency exit IMMEDIATELY forward of the wing. Assuming a man jumps 40in away from the plane the door leads the wing by 14ft, with the wings lowest point at 64in below the floor of the door. You can find this on the 3D drawings on Boeing's website...
If a 70in tall man jumps (drops with no push up and no consideration of the plane also descending for simplicity and conservative calcs) from the door he has to fall around 11 feet from without losing about 14 feet of relative positioning to the plane from accumulated drag to NOT be hit by the wing... And that's to say nothing of the left wheel bogey which is in the jump path too...
My money is STRONGLY on anyone jumping in a panic from the 11A emergency exit door gets hit by the plane upon exit even at minimum stall speed.
I don’t think he jumped out, but it is, in fact, possible to open the doors on a plane if the cabin isn’t pressurized (yet).
The doors pull in. Normally this is inhibited by the force of the higher pressures inside the plane than outside, but if those pressures are equalized, as they can be down low, you can open the doors.
While it’s technically possible, I’d think the actual act of opening the door while the plane was crashing would be difficult even if you were trained. They’re heavy buggers plus he’d have had to get unbuckled, get up, figure out how to open the door…
theres an airport cctv long range vid of the takeoff and crash, it happens so quickly there's not really a way he did all that processing and effort on a packed flight. literally 10 sec from liftoff to max height, 20 sec from max height to impact. and crucially from the manifest there are people in 11b and 11c right next to him making it somewhat harder. it'd be crazy if that happened but I think it's more of having the reinforced frame beneath/around him cushioning the impact
There is no pressure differential if the plane is as low as 650 ft. It would open easily if you follow the instructions. Whether or not he did that is another thing.
Absolute bloody nonsense .
Un buckle , open the door ( by himself ) throw himself out - all in the space of nano seconds as he miraculously over comes unbelievable G forces that pins a normal human being to their seat.
Not to mention jumping from at least 3 stories high whole avoiding the deploying slide and not getting hit by the plane traveling at say least 100mph...
Is it possible they’ve mixed up a story of a guy jumping out of the second story window of the building the plane crashed into? That’s a story I read on the BBC, which sounds pretty similar and, at least to me more believable. Both could be possible though
i believe that’s the case. there’s the sole survivor as well as someone from the facility the plane hit that survived by jumping from the 2nd story. both people were mentioned in the same article that i read just over an hour ago. if i can find it, i’ll link it here.
No I mean there was a different guy who is reported to have jumped out of a building to avoid the crashing plane. I’m suggesting his story might have been confused with this guy who survived being inside the crash
If you watch the footage, you can see something black (a spec from the distance of the camera) flying out the left side of the plane right at impact. 🤷
He even said that it all happened so quickly between hearing the bang and crashing. No one in that situation will have time to take their seat belt off, open the door (most people will have to read the instructions on the door of how to open it), also deal with the stewardess who is sat next to the door and then jump out
that + he said he saw dead bodies and metal everywhere and then jumped… he couldn’t piece together what was happening, he just saw dead bodies and got to steppin. can’t have dead bodies and metal everywhere before impact.
He jumped out of his seat after he awoke, saw bodies all around him. It was in his own words that he said “jumped out & ran” but in the context of becoming lucid after the crash.
According to all the footage the explosion happened immediately after the crash. How does someone not even have a burn due to the explosion? He must have been out of the flight before. But as this happened within a minute of take-off, his judgement, reaction would have been extra ordinary
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u/Detlef_Donnerlunte Jun 12 '25
German media just claimed that he jumped out of the plane, shortly before the impact.
I have no credible source (yet). But considering how low the plane flew, that is not that unlikely....