How to Survive a Falling Elevator

The average office building elevator works about 10 hours a day, and it makes 400,000 trips a year. That's roughly the number of my trips to the fridge in times of social isolation. Getting stuck in an elevator is unpleasant. It happens to one in every 5,000 rides. But there's nothing deadly about that.
Finding yourself in a free-falling elevator is quite rare, one in 10 million. You have a better chance of being killed by a bear in Yellowstone National Park.
But if you ever do happen to be in a situation like this, can you save yourself by jumping up in the air?

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