If someone dies in a plane crash, would the cause of death on the autopsy report be, "Plane Crash"?

Question

Just curious, or would they go specifically into each body and find out what the underlying cause of death was?

Answer 1

not sure. theres many things that could of caused it.. force of impact, loss of air, the fire, etc.  but then again.. if the crash was bad enough there might not be enough body remains the autopsy!

Answer 2

It would probably be smoke inhalation, blunt force trauma, or something like that listed.  In auto accidents the cause is not listed as auto accident but something like blunt force trauma secondary to an auto accident.  Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Slapped out of the sky by the Hand of God.

Answer 4

Traumatic impact or deceleration blunt force trauma. They may do an autopsy, but in just about all crash cases where there is a salvageable body to examine, that's probably what they will put in or some variation.  

Answer 5

mostly in a specific way. It's not ethical for doctors to give such usual statement by saying "plane crash". They'll absolutely go specifically since people in planes may died with various reasons. like inhale too much smoke and dying of suffocation, burned or because there's some broken vital part of body caused by plane's element crush it during the plane crash.