Chances of surviving a plane crash?

Question

If you were on a commercial flight and had to do an emergency landing in water what would the chance of survival be?

Answer 1

Unless your right by land chances are none because the plane will sink. Unless it is only like 2 or 3 feet of water.

Answer 2

i have and my chances were basiocally one in a million :)

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Answer 3

50/50

Answer 4

I hate to say this but virtually nil.

At 200 mph water isn't quite as soft and squishy as you'd think, you might as well be landing on concrete.

Answer 5

Statistically, more than 90% of plane crashes have survivors. In 67% of crashes, ALL passengers survive. Despite this, in the 2000s, only 24% of plane crashes involving more than 10 passengers survived. However there are several conflicting statistics around: one site in fact states "more than half surive", directly contradicting this.

Answer 6

In airplane crashes in general, the chances of survival are 1 or less out of 100.

There is no such thing as an emergency landing in water however. Such a crash would probably render no survivors, and the chances of survival are probably none (the airplane would sink), unless the water was only 2 or 3 feet deep, or it crashed right next to the land.

That is what happened with the famous Swissair flight 111. It crashed into the ocean near Nova Scotia (it attempted to make an emergency landing to an airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia), and all of those who were on board died.