Ive read post regarding PASSENGERS wearing parachutes, which is impractical to jump out of a falling plane in -50 degrees. But what about a parachute for the entire plane..?? Im sure there is some lightweight material.. so if anything goes wrong, the plane will hit the ground at say 10 mph instead of 500 mph..
2006-08-04 08:34:58 · 10 answers · asked by TheAnswerGuy 2 in Travel ➔ Air Travel
Not cost effective.
2006-08-04 08:38:21 · answer #1 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would almost never be useful. With most aircraft crashes, there is only a few seconds before when things start to go wrong and when its all overwith. Very very few crashes would allow for an extire evacuation of the aircraft in time. In addition, you cannot jump out of an aircraft at any speed or altitude. You have to be fairly low (not up in the FL300s) and fairly slow (Mach 0.8 is way too fast). Combine that with the fact that the passengers would have no idea how to sucessfully complete a parachute jump and many would not be physically fit enough to survive it...along with the fact that it could quite possibly be over a very barren area with the chutes coming down spread over a large chunk of land, and its just not going to be a good thing.
2006-08-04 08:41:07 · answer #2 · answered by TexasBeauty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's not cost effective and it's weight prohibitive.
Plus, a plan is designed to continue to fly or glide, even if the engines go out.
Besides, you still have a greater chance of being shot than you do dying in a plane crash.
2006-08-04 08:41:43 · answer #3 · answered by SlawDawg, the answer guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some small aircraft do. It's a fairly recent development but I heard of this a few months ago. Do some looking around on the web and bet you can find out something about them.
2006-08-04 08:40:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it truly is troublesome sufficient to get out of an airliner on the floor even as the airplane is status nonetheless on the gate now imagine three hundred idiots that did not pay interest to the flight attendant's briefing attempting to determine out a thanks to apply a parachute for the first time then imagine that the airplane is shifting round tossing you up and down and reduce the front and back now we come to the very incontrovertible fact that in a pressurized airplane you won't be able to open the doors till it truly is depressurized oh yeah and also you're flying at four hundred MPH desire you do not hit the tail on your way out. better human beings could die attempting to go out the airplane than in the adventure that they rode it in for the time of an emergency touchdown!!!! As for the guy who stated ejection pods your only an fool if each passenger had an ejection pod the airplane could weigh too a lot it may in no way get off the floor and if it did take care of to get off the floor its performance could be so badly degraded it may be better probably to crash.
2016-11-28 02:46:33 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would not be cost effective it would take millions of dollars to invent and make the thing and chances are it would not be need, the cost alone of taking a plane out of service would be hundred of thousands dollars a week
2006-08-04 08:41:55 · answer #6 · answered by welsh lizard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a better chance of being killed in a car crash than in a plane crash. As the guy said, not cost effective.
2006-08-04 08:39:56 · answer #7 · answered by rb_cubed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just take a drop cord with you! It'll always hang up on something!
2006-08-07 15:48:12 · answer #8 · answered by dummy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I asked an airline pilot once, he answered me that it is useless- there would be no time to use them.
2006-08-04 08:43:27 · answer #9 · answered by bud8889989 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and who's gonna teach you to use it in your last 1 minute of life?
2006-08-04 08:39:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋