2006-08-23 11:50:50 · 12 answers · asked by djr 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Commercial planes typically fly above 20,000 feet of altitude. Once you hit about 14,000 feet, the air is so thin that humans cannot breathe without an oxygen tank. If manufacturers or airlines were to equip each of the seats on their planes with a parachute, they'd likely have to equip each of them with a portable oxygen tank, helmet and all sorts of impractical accoutrements. If a plane makes a water landing, you have a chance for survival. At 30,000 feet, you don't. If your plane blows up in the middle of a flight at 30,000 feet, get off your seat cushion, bend over and kiss your "seat" goodbye. A parachute ain't going to save it.
2006-08-23 12:22:15 · answer #1 · answered by BugsySkybone 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if the plane crashed in the sea the flotation devices would help bring you up to the surface and just holding on would keep you up in the water...a parachute would drag you down in the water
2006-08-23 12:18:31 · answer #2 · answered by SPEAK UP WAKE UP 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in case you style the words "parachutes in planes" in the field above the position it says "search for for questions" it is going to prepare you that your question has now been requested 614 situations . If takes an excellent form of educating to leap out an plane. are you able to imagine the chaos with 2 hundred human beings suffering to positioned on parachutes in a cabin it truly is no longer sufficiently vast to bypass round in to commence with and the carnage of folk and children being walked over and beaten because they're too scared to leap? Any way you seem at it it really is an unworkable theory. . .
2016-11-27 01:23:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's simply too hard to jump out of a plane, should you know it's gonna crash.... It would be safer under all circumstances to stay buckled in your seat and not standing to jump out of the plane. If the plane is ripping in half, there would probably be no time, and too much shaking to put it on anyways.
2006-08-23 12:01:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How are you going to get all the passengers out the doors? How many are parachute rated?
2006-08-23 11:56:38 · answer #5 · answered by Wounded duckmate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
planes crash into the water
you cannot survive a jump from that high even with a parachute
2006-08-23 11:56:31 · answer #6 · answered by Mopar Muscle Gal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So why are seat belts required on take off and landings?? to insure you make it to the scene of the crash???
2006-08-23 12:17:27 · answer #7 · answered by Thelizardking 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are interring the world of flying gizmo's and nothing will make sense when you put your life in the hands of a wing nut (pilot).
2006-08-23 12:02:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The plane's cabin is pressurized, so you cannot open the door and jump.
2006-08-27 11:17:11 · answer #9 · answered by randyrich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
floatation devices are cheaper. they figure if you survive the crash, THEN you can be safe with that seat cushion. brilliant logic isn't it?
2006-08-23 11:56:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋