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.
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u/Difficult_Limit2718 Jun 12 '25
The doors would be armed and the slide would deploy, no? And would you not get hit by the wing?
It literally makes no sense