09-06-2014, 10:34 PM
I had a similar thought on seat belts for toddlers on airplanes and got in trouble on a flight 25 years ago.
After reading that almost every child that was being held on to (this was when children could ride in the lap of a parent) became separated from the parent on impact during the 1989 Sioux City, IA airliner crash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 I decided to make a modified seat belt for my son.
At the time I thought it was brilliant of course, I took an automobile seat belt, had a shoe repair guy sew a loop on the back side of a single seat belt that I could then fasten my seat belt though this loop. That way my son would remain firmly in my grasp should we crash. Of course the stewardesses freaked out about it and didn't want me to use it, saying my son could sit on my lap WITHOUT the seat belt which made no sense to me at the time.
Afterwards, thinking about the physics should we crash and my big body probably being doubled over at the waist, I would have probably smashed my son.
This thinking is similar to strapping your child to your back....I don't know which would be worst, having them fly off alone or taking the chance (25%?) of you landing on your back and compounding the accident by smashing them with your large body?
I don't know the answer, I'm just saying, I had similar thoughts and I'm still not sure which poison is better.
After reading that almost every child that was being held on to (this was when children could ride in the lap of a parent) became separated from the parent on impact during the 1989 Sioux City, IA airliner crash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 I decided to make a modified seat belt for my son.
At the time I thought it was brilliant of course, I took an automobile seat belt, had a shoe repair guy sew a loop on the back side of a single seat belt that I could then fasten my seat belt though this loop. That way my son would remain firmly in my grasp should we crash. Of course the stewardesses freaked out about it and didn't want me to use it, saying my son could sit on my lap WITHOUT the seat belt which made no sense to me at the time.
Afterwards, thinking about the physics should we crash and my big body probably being doubled over at the waist, I would have probably smashed my son.
This thinking is similar to strapping your child to your back....I don't know which would be worst, having them fly off alone or taking the chance (25%?) of you landing on your back and compounding the accident by smashing them with your large body?
I don't know the answer, I'm just saying, I had similar thoughts and I'm still not sure which poison is better.