If Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that disaster can strike at the worst of times.

Usually, in the worst possible places and with alarming regularity.

These disasters often involve plummeting several thousand of feet from an airplane that's either malfunctioning hijacked or overrun with snakes, sometimes all three.

But would it be possible to actually survive a

plane crash? And if you could, what happens when you reach the ground? Let's talk about it.

You're listening. You're listening to be amazed.

First of all, you'd have to be incredibly unlucky to experience a plane crash.

According to a study carried out at the Roe-Claw University of Technology, the odds of your

plane crashing on the way to its destination are 1 and 2 million.

You'd have to take that flight every day for the next 5,000 years before it becomes even slightly likely.

Even if you were to crash, the National Transportation Safety Board has found that more than 95% of passengers involved in airplane crashes actually survive.

However, this statistic includes much more

common minor crashes. A serious crash at full speed may not necessarily have such a positive

outcome. But all the statistics in the world won't change the fact that plane crashes do happen,

albeit rarely, and that is a very real source of fear for many a wary traveler.

And rightly so. The ins and outs can vary largely from case to case, but in a worst-case scenario,

a plane crash is going to leave you feeling more than a little sore.

Commercial airplanes typically cruise at around 575 miles per hour or 925 kilometers per hour, and crashing at any speed even close to this amount is going to do some serious damage.

The main issue is that as the plane decelerates your body continues to travel forward as the momentum carries you and every other loose object in the cabin.

Even hitting water at a shallow angle will result in massive deceleration as the plane adjusts to its new regrettably terrestrial surroundings.

Your body has to decelerate too, pushing and pulling hard against whatever is in front of or around you.

Most likely your body will fly forward, pulling against your seatbelt hard enough to snap your spine.

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