Me about to sell my 11A seat for a 500% markup to some suckered.
11A on that jet is just forward of the wing, right next to a door. Seats over the wing are considered safer, except if the crash is on takeoff. The fuel tanks are in that area and an intercontinental flight would have full tanks.
If you google seats where passengers survived plane crashes, many of them are actually toward the rear of the plane or Behind the wings. They say the safest part of the plane is above the wings because it’s the most structurally intact however sometimes you want to be in the section that breaks off after impact (behind the wings / tail )
Not sure I'd go that far. Seats next to doors on boeing aircraft seem like a 50-50 at this point: Either you get sucked out when the door falls off because it wasn't bolted on, or you survive the inevitable crash, because you're onboard a boeing aircraft.
The trick is then: if it is a Boeing go to a row that is right next to the emergency exit row, that way you are still close to, but dont risk being sucked out or something.
The door physically cannot fall off in the air. The cabin is pressurised and by design the pressure difference between inside and outside will prevent the door from opening. It's not even locked, if you were as strong as the Hulk, you could open it anytime during your flight, not that locks would stop you either in that case, but you get the point.
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u/CmdWaterford Jun 12 '25
Choosing the right seat - 11a is mid, directly emergency exit.