How come they dont have parachutes for each person in an airplane in case of emergency?

Answer 1

In three of the last ten years, there have been no deaths in the US during a commercial jet flight. None. For three of ten years. Although there are 14,000 takeoffs and landings EACH DAY.

Modern jet commercial aircraft are so safe that you would, on average, have to fly every day for 26,000 years before you got into a crash.

Now, dig this: even then, you would probably live through it.

OK? Now think about 150 or 250 or 400 people putting on parachutes during an emergency, bailing out without being ingested into an engine, and landing on LAND without breaking a bone. People who've never parachuted before. If they land at sea, they are gonna drown, I guarantee you, they are going to get entangled and drown by suffocation.

The odds are better staying with the airframe and letting it absorb most of the stress and damage.

Answer 2

It would be completely impractical. Fighter jets have ejection seats, which is the only reason it makes sense for them to use a parachute. Commericial airplanes clearly don't have ejection seats, so you would probably get sucked into the jet engine. Most plane crashes occur so quickly (and usually on take off or landing) that there would be no way to even get the parachute on, much less deploy it. Would you have to wear the thing the whole flight? How uncomfortable would that be?

Answer 3

Let's put it this way. When deciding whether or not to do a certain safety related thing, the airlines and safety people assign a value to a human life and compare the cost of lives saved to the cost of implementing the idea.

In the case of parachutes, I can only image that the cost of putting parachuts in each plane greatly outweighs the cost of the number of lives that would be saved.

Oh, yeah, and it would weigh a lot, too.

Answer 4

Because that costs money.
If airlines included a parachute for each person on the plane, your ticket would easily cost $5000. They'd have to buy the parachutes, get them approved by the FAA, verify that they're operational while maintaining the aircraft... the most expensive part would be paying for fuel to carry their weight around.

Think how much it costs to go skydiving, airlines can't afford free thrill rides!

Besides, you know some adventurous person would totally jump out the door in the air...

Answer 5

For the amount of flights a day, and the rarity of crashes, having parachutes would be impractical mainly because of costs. Because the airline industry is hurting so bad right now, no one wants the extra costs, not to mention the maintenance on X amount of parachutes for the "just in case" scenario.

Answer 6

There are a lot of issues with this situation:

1. The velosity of the aircraft and being able to exit it and clear the wing and the engines

2. The cabin would required to be depressurized... resulting in lack of O2... causing you to pass out depending on altitude.

3. Training would need to be required for each person so as to know the functionality of the chute

4. now... the aircraftg is about to crash... the G forces you are experiancing are far more than you can imagine... if you are in a fall... you cannot move. your body is compressing at enormus pressure... the blood either collects in your legs or your head depending on the direction... and you are rying to get up... open a door.. .and jump out... you would never make it.

Answer 7

For one reason, they are not trained to use them and there are not just adults, but children and babys. Another reason is that even if the plane were to slow enough for them to jump out (around 150 knots and maintain stability) it would leave them strewn across a long, wide area instead of being just around where the aircraft came down. A couple hundred people jumping would go across miles and miles of whatever terrain they happen to come down in and also blown into whichever direction the winds happens to take them. Imagine a full jumbo jet under that condition. 450 people would take a long time to get out. And they could be spread acrossed 15 to 20 miles. Also, they would all have to jump out of the rear doors, since coming out anything forward of the wings means they have to not hit that and the engines. Even exiting from the rear is hazardous with planes with rear mounted instead of wing mounted engines.

Answer 8

The extra weight would decrease your luggage allowance. Probably no carry on. Oh and by the way, at 30K feet there isn't enough air to breathe. You know what it is like getting off a plane on the ground. Imagine everyone trying to get parachutes on, trying to get to the door to jump, not really practical.....

Sorry about the ramble.

Answer 9

if a airline company offered parachutes they would not be saying much about their safety would they and they would probably be in business for about a week and how would you get 100-200 screaming people off a jet that's falling like rock anyway.statistically speaking you would have to fly 24/7 for 2000 years before you were involved in a fatal crash.

Answer 10

too high of altitude at a high rate of speed....stay on the plane, chances of survival are better