# Why EXACTLY do we need our Seatbacks in the Full and Upright Positon?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-exactly-do-we-need-our-seatbacks-in-the-full-and-upright-positon/204162>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 27, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-exactly-do-we-need-our-seatbacks-in-the-full-and-upright-positon/204162 "2003-09-27T15:30:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-exactly-do-we-need-our-seatbacks-in-the-full-and-upright-positon/204162/21 "2003-09-28T16:17:46Z")

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I flew sitting in a back-ward facing seat several times in the military. The most memorable was the first time I flew on a COD mission in an S2F - this included a carrier launch and long flight to a NATO base. The cat shot was a real strange sensation and all our gear ended up in the tail of the aircraft - kinda scary to see all that stuff bouncing around back there.

As a completely disconnected aside, I wonder what the navigators in some aircraft experience - they sit facing the _side_ of the aircraft!

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**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-exactly-do-we-need-our-seatbacks-in-the-full-and-upright-positon/204162/22 "2003-09-28T16:34:55Z")

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the most important reason of all for having all the seats face forward:

How else can every passenger see the movie?

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