Brace position

The designated in aviation as Brace position or crash position posture is directed to accidents and emergency landings posture of a flight passenger.

Sense of a particular posture in anticipation of an accident

The taking of a particular posture in anticipation of a flight accident serves to protect against injury, especially to the front of a multiple trauma or severe burns. In commercial aircraft, it has proved useful to passengers for any emergency situations recommended a concrete behavior.

Basic condition

Pilots and flight attendants call the passengers on to such behavior when an air emergency occurs that can no longer be a controlled onward flight seem possible, but to be expected with a forced landing, ditching or crash of the plane.

Posture

The passenger should push the pelvis as far back as possible, pull his waist very tightly, bring feet and head as far to the front, where appropriate lean his forehead against the backrest of the front seat and put his hands next to his head. With vertical asked back tightens the strap around the pelvic bone and the danger that it triggers internal injuries in the abdominal cavity is reduced. The table of the front seat is folded in dangerous situations in order to minimize the risk of injury and to allow rapid evacuation of the aircraft cabin.