Mary Roach Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. March 20, 1959
Birthday: March 20
Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.
source: Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.125, W. W. Norton & Company
topic: Airplane, Secret, Survival, Evacuation, Cadavers, Airplane Crashes
