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by srvmshr 1547 days ago
5g forces on impact would imply the projectile stopped at ~50m/s^2 (numerically 5x the gravitational constant) deceleration. In a free fall, it hardly exceeds 1g, unless the aircraft was powering it to hurtle down faster
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Read the accident report. It hit nearly 5gs on a powered descent and roll before the pilot recovered the plane.
Yes, it did. Now what does it tell you that the crew never lost consciousness?

G-forces are not experienced equally based on the axis on which the plane is moving or the speed at which it accelerates/decelerates. The airframe of that plane was deformed with the wings bent permanently indicating non-plastic deformation, and yet the passengers were fine.

Imagine a plane rotating on the axis through the COG nose moving 'down', that would give the pilots negative G, the people near the tail positive G and everybody in between something along a gradient, those near the COG would likely not experience much difference. If the plane came out of a steep dive then there would be a lot of positive G, and if someone were to black out that would likely be only for a moment. A powered descent into terrain would be far less in terms of G's than violent maneuvers such as steep banks or coming out of a steep dive.