2006-09-04 06:37:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Air Travel
In a controlled "ditching over water" where you might be able to use a chute if you had enough altitude... you can also survive the trip to the water staying in the plane. Then the obstacle is staying afloat since the plane will soon disappear. Most people know how to use a life jacket. Not many know how to skydive... and even parachuting, you would still be out of luck once you reached the water if you didn't have a life jacket. And there is the issue of having people scattered over miles of ocean...
In an out-of-control "crash" a chute or a life-jacket would be useless since you can't jump out of an unstable speeding plane.
The manufacturers of Cirrus aircraft have added parachutes to the airplane. ;-)
Aloha
2006-09-04 06:43:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
There are some good answers on this question, however one of the mainreasons is that if a plane crashes at sea there are very few things that will float on a plane after the first hour. apart from LIFEJACKETS !!!! They are bright Yellow so they can be seen by search and rescue.
Grab a parachute by all means but if you bail out over the ocean, good luck getting the chute off once you hit the water !
2006-09-04 11:08:05 · answer #2 · answered by Ross B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The life jackets are for crash landings in the sea, if you crash land anywhere else you may as well kiss yourself goodbye, by the time a whole flight put on parachutes the plane would have blown up 4 times...
2006-09-04 06:43:25 · answer #3 · answered by tuesday 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a federal regulation to have them. Also as others have stated a parachute jump is not as simple as it looks. The altitude must not be too low to open or too high without oxygen breathe. The speed must be slow. The aircraft has to be depressurized. You have to clear the plane without a wing or engine hitting you. Then there the weight & bulk of parachutes and the lack of training on falling.
2006-09-04 08:21:39 · answer #4 · answered by lana_sands 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What would you do with a parachute in the sea. Besides If a plane is going down by opening the emergency doors so you could jump would depressurise NOT a good Idea.
2006-09-04 06:50:10 · answer #5 · answered by giucy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets be honest.
If you are in a plane & it crashes you are quite surely scr*w*d. The airline give you a lifejacket to put on to give you something to take your mind off the fact that you are going to die. And besides, a parachute each would take up too much room.
2006-09-04 10:25:59 · answer #6 · answered by monkeyface 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've always wondered that too. If you crash into the ocean a life jacket is not going to help what's left of you.
Even if.....and that's a big if....you do survive a water crash do they really think you're going to put a life-jacket on before you try to find your way out of a sinking plane?
Ridiculous!
I suppose it's some sort of regulation that the airline industry wants. Makes them feel better, but doesn't do a damn thing for passengers.
2006-09-04 06:42:10 · answer #7 · answered by Chatty 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You have a better chance of landing in water and using a life
jacket to float then trying to get a bunch of people to jump out
of a plane. Imagine trying to get 200 people, including old ladies
and children and overweight ones to jump out of a jet traveling
at 500 miles per hour.....
2006-09-04 06:49:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WAY too expensive! Also, there's the situation where it might not open, there's a lawsuit. Also, there could be a wack-a-doo on the plane that decides to take all the chutes for himself or steal them off another person. PLus, chutes are expensive on the market. They could easily be stolen and ther's lots of money loss for the airlines.
2006-09-04 08:41:32 · answer #9 · answered by YourGuardianAngel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you jumped out of a commercial plane wearing a parachute...wouldn't the engines suck you in when you jumped?
2006-09-04 06:44:56 · answer #10 · answered by akashan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋