Imagine an airline exec pitching this: “Let’s buy a Boeing 727, stuff it with crash dummies, and yeet it into the Mexican desert at 140 mph to see who survives!” In 2012, that’s exactly what happened, all to answer the age-old question: where’s the safest seat on a plane? Spoiler: first-class folks, you’re toast, but the back-row budget warriors might just walk away. This wild experiment, funded by TV companies, proved that science sometimes needs a spectacular crash to make a point.
Airline once crashed a Boeing plane on purpose to find out what the safest seat was
