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His deceleration from 108 mph (173 km/h) to 0 in a distance of 26 inches (66 cm) is one of the highest G-loads survived in a crash (180 G). He scored no championship points during his Formula One career. He died in a plane crash, having retired from motorsport and taken up aerobatics, in 1985.
He survived one of the racing sport's biggest crashes at Texas Motor Speedway in 2003, where he recorded the highest horizontal g-force ever survived by a human being at 214 g 0. [2] [3] Eighteen months later he made a comeback at the Indy 500 and set the fastest qualifying time of the field. He retired from IndyCar racing after the race.
He survived an estimated 179.8 g when he decelerated from 173 km/h (108 mph) to 0 in a distance of 66 cm (26 inches) after his throttle got stuck wide open and he hit a wall. [3] For many years, this was thought to be the highest g-force ever survived by a human being. [3] He suffered multiple fractures to his legs, pelvis and ribs.
The highest recorded g-force experienced by a human who survived was during the 2003 IndyCar Series finale at Texas Motor Speedway on 12 October 2003, in the 2003 Chevy 500 when the car driven by Kenny Bräck made wheel-to-wheel contact with Tomas Scheckter's car.
In 2007, Force was involved in a crash at Texas Motorplex, where he veered into Kenny Bernstein after blowing a tire at 327 mph. This crash left Force in the hospital for more than a month and ...
Highest recorded amount of g-force exposed and survived by a human (Peak deceleration experienced by Kenny Bräck in a crash at the 2003 Chevy 500) [16] [17] 2256 m/s 2 230 g
The pilots used a 'break' to gather their aircraft into position prior to landing, with Red 1, called for a 'flat break'. This break resulted in the highest g-force and for the longest amount of time of the flight - the pilots would have pulled 6.3g. Egging, in Red 4, appeared to roll the aircraft normally, apexing at the correct height of 500 ft.
An Air Force Osprey crash off Japan in 2023 that killed eight airmen was caused by a “catastrophic failure” of the aircraft’s gearbox and the pilot’s “insufficient sense of urgency” to ...