Could you survive on the outside of a plane?

We've seen it in movies; James Bond or some other tough guy hero hanging onto the outside of plane at 30,000 feet while attempting to stop the villain's nefarious plan, but could a human being actually survive that kind of situation? The answer is no, Jason Kring of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University told popsci.com.



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You'd also have a massive case of the bends from being up so high in an unpressurized environment. You would probably succumb to the cold and hypoxia, MAYBE be able to revive and live, depending on the altitude the aircraft flew and how long the flight was!

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There are serious risks associated with the extreme conditions people face if they try to travel in the undercarriage of a plane. These include being crushed when landing gear retracts, frostbite, hearing loss, tinnitus and acidosis - the build-up of acid in body fluids which can cause coma or death.

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Nothing, but if you hold objects in your hand, they will be ripped out of your hand because of wind pressure.

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Fifty years ago, a 23-year-old woman fell 33,333 feet from the sky and survived, making it to the Guinness World Record (GWR) for 'Highest fall survived without parachute'.

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Vesna Vulovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ???????, pronounced [?êsna ?û?lo?it?]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles).

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Even if you enter feet-first in a straight, vertical line, and like a pencil, that impact can be strong enough to compress your spine, break bones, or give you a concussion. The force of the water can knock people unconscious on impact, and even if you survive, you may drown.

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However, statistically speaking, a seat close to an exit in the front or rear, or a middle seat in the back third of the plane offers the lowest fatality rate.

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Airplane accidents are 95% survivable. Here are seven ways to increase those odds even more.

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The good news is that an airplane crash doesn't necessarily mean certain death. In fact, of the 568 U.S. plane crashes between 1980 and 2000, more than 90 percent of crash victims survived [source: BBC]. In the event of an air disaster, there are things you can do that can increase your odds of living.

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The flight is far from the first to see a stowaway survive a perilous journey. In November, a 26-year-old man was found in a plane's landing gear compartment at Miami International Airport. Authorities said he had survived the 2-hour and 37-minute flight journey from Guatemala.

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Sudden decompression, which would occur if a plane door was suddenly thrust open, is another matter. Anyone standing near the exit would be ejected into the sky; the cabin temperature would quickly plummet to frostbite-inducing levels, and the plane itself might even begin to break apart.

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And Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic holds the Guinness world record for the longest survived fall — over 30,000 feet — after her plane blew up in the 1970s, though some cynics think the real height of Vulovic's fall was a mere 2,600 feet.

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Just over fifty years ago Vesna Vulovic fell out of the sky from 30,000 feet – and lived. Vulovic was a flight attendant on JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 on January 26, 1972. The flight was scheduled to operate from Stockholm to Copenhagen to Zagreb and then on to Belgrade with a DC-9.

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One of the most believed ones is that touching the plane offers a bit of good luck, like passengers are thanking the plane for its services and asking it to get them to their destination safely.

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