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If you look at survivable crashes, it’s rare that even half the emergency exits open, says Shanahan. Plus, there’s a lot of panic and confusion. Shanahan cites the example of a Delta crash in Dallas. It should have been very survivable. There were very few traumatic injuries. But a lot of people were killed by the fire. They found them stacked up at the emergency exits. Couldn’t get them open.

Mary Roach

If you look at survivable crashes, it’s rare that even half the emergency exits open, says Shanahan. Plus, there’s a lot of panic and confusion. Shanahan cites the example of a Delta crash in Dallas. It should have been very survivable. There were very few traumatic injuries. But a lot of people were killed by the fire. They found them stacked up at the emergency exits. Couldn’t get them open.

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Mary Roach (born March 20, 1959) is an American author specializing in popular science and humor. She has published seven New York Times bestsellers: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013), Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016), and Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (2021).