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by robotresearcher 2654 days ago
Seat designs are tightly regulated to allow quick evacuation.
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And what's the purpose of that? If anything happens in-flight, most likely you're all going to be dead anyway. It's very, very rare that passengers are actually able to escape a plane that's crashed; the "Sully" incident is one of the few that come to mind at the moment.
Evacuations on the ground, after a bad landing, during taxi, even at the gate, are a thing.