Step two: Adjust your posture into something resembling a skydiver's flying squirrel pose. ...
Step three: Aim. ...
Step four: Select an impact posture.
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For starters, you wouldn't have much time. If you fall from a plane at 12,000 feet (about 2 miles or 3.6 kilometers up), you'll have less than a minute before you hit the ground. That's because in freefall, you plummet at about 120 miles per hour (193 kilometers per hour).
Almost all falls from beyond about 10 stories are fatal, although people have survived much higher falls than this, even onto hard surfaces. For example, one suicidal jumper has survived a fall from the 39th story of a building, as has a non-suicidal person who accidentally fell from the 47th floor.
Although people do survive, your chances aren't very good, Hamilton says, so it's better to avoid the situation entirely. In the end, the best way to survive a tumble out of an airplane may be to wear a parachute.
The idea is to get as much altitude as possible, as close to the airport as possible. So you have a relatively steep initial climb, followed by a reduction of climb angle to cruise climb and a power reduction.
Turbulence, which causes planes to suddenly jolt while in flight, is considered a fairly normal occurrence and nothing to fear. The movement is caused by atmospheric pressure, jet streams, air around mountains, cold or warm weather fronts, or thunderstorms, according to The Federal Aviation Administration.
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.