When a plane hits the ground, what actually kills the people on bored, specifically?

Like, does the body get crushed, but how is that possible if the bodies are found fully intact? I am confused, what really kills a person when their plane falls from the sky into the ground or the ocean?|||The sudden stop- not trying to be funny but that is what truly kills you in a crash. Also flyin debris and fire for the people that survive the impact.|||the force of the plane when it hits the ground is enough to kill every passenger onboard, the fires and explosions then take away any evidence|||Shock - Its the silent killer, or a heartattack.|||throw a tomato against a wall. this will give you a good idea.|||the force of sudden stop would violently disturb your internal organs, e.g. your heart may be crushed with your ribs, your intestines may be pulled by sudden stop and go to your balls(hernia). You could suffer from internal bleeding. Your brain may suffer trauma.|||A sudden stop with g-forces will rupture arteries, crack ribs, puncture lungs, and mainly snap the brain stem, making them dead.|||In smaller aircraft, tends to be blunt force trauma if fatalities involved, but could be fire. In larger, airline type equipment, tends to be fire (and fire-related causes) if fire is involved.


They are not always found fully intact, by the way.|||The sudden stop and the smoke and fumes from any post-crash fire.|||Aircraft accidents are not 100% fatal. The impact will be the biggest killer. Second will be the smoke and fumes. Very few people actually die from fire. Smoke will almost always incapacitate or kill before the fire.|||It is commonly referred to as BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA. The human body is ill equipped to survive a 10g PLUS stop whether belted in or not.|||The organs in your body move faster than the bones and body surrounding them. Brain comes unglued from the skull.|||actually, the majority of deaths from a/c crashes are a result of either blunt force trama to the head from hitting it on the dash/seat in front of the passenger, etc or the artires ripping from the heart. Both cause death in less than a few seconds. The force of a aircraft impact can be in excessive of over a couple hundred g's pulling the heart and organs down/forward enough to damage them or rip the connecting tissue.


If the person happens to survice the impact, then usually fire will then consume them and the oxygen in a matter of seconds.|||Interestingly, the human body can withstand a very large amount of G-force "laterally", that is, acceleration or deceleration, but only very little "vertical" G-force.





So whereas you might survive a plane hitting the ground hard at an angle nose first, the subsequent contact with the ground when the fuselage hits can be enough to cause arterial separation, shattered vertebrae, etc. Internal injuries.





Then if that or the fire doesn't get you, the smoke in your lungs surely will.





Interestingly, aircraft seats and mounting hardware are required by law to withstand several times over a fatal amount of G-forces.|||Indeed the sudden stop at the end is quite fatal, though it isn't quite as dramatic as a tomato against a wall. More like a stem full of grapes in a Ziploc bag, thrown against a wall. Vital organs inside the body are interconnected and a violent enough rapid deceleration can cause different parts to rupture, split, puncture, or tear connecting tissues.


Kidneys are very prone to damage in rapid deceleration as is the heart, in vertical and horiziontal situations. In the case of head trauma it's not the "brain stem snapping off" most of the time. The brain is surrounded and cushioned from shock by a thin layer of fluid - sort of your brain floating in the container (your skull). A fast enough rapid deceleration (or acceleration) will cause the brain to impact the side of the skull and cause bruising, just like a bruise you get from falling down. The blood collects on that area and causes the brain to swell. The brain, being surrounded by a layer of fluid and fluid be unable to compress, essentially crushes or squeezes the brain.


Those are some of the injuries that make aircraft crashes fatal. There are plenty of websites that further discuss the impact injuries on the human body. Just takes a bit of looking, but make sure you have a strong stomach before you end up seeing something you'd rather have not known.