2006-09-18 09:44:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Because you were already travelling at the same speed as the plane, as was the air in the cabin.
You have the momentum to keep travelling at the same speed as the plane unless another force acts upon you, and with the air also travelling at the same speed, there is nothing to provide any force in the direction of travel. The only force acting on you is gravity, which brings you back down onto the floor of the plane.
2006-09-18 09:52:30 · answer #1 · answered by Neil 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because of the law of conservation of momentum. You are already travelling the same speed as the plane, and that doesn't change just because you jump off the floor, any more than stepping out the door of a moving car lets you stop and stand on the ground.
2006-09-18 17:16:00 · answer #2 · answered by Jerry L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you jump around the plane, the back won't hit you but fellow passengers will. Anyway, you are travelling with the plane and it is making you go the same speed as it. If you were to dramatically slow down, and the plane kept going the same speed, then the back would it you.
2006-09-18 16:58:47 · answer #3 · answered by Dan 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's all to do with motion. You're moving the same speed as the plane when you jump, also there's no force pushing against you, the front of the plane takes the brunt of it all.
It's the same when you sit in a car and throw something up in the air and catch it. It doesn't hit you in the face.
2006-09-18 16:56:41 · answer #4 · answered by ian m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is because you are moving at 500 mph with the aircraft, but if you hit an air pocket, the sudden loss of height will send you towards the aircrafts roof and you will bang your head really hard, usually on the overhead luggage bins! and then hurtle back towards the floor as the aircraft passes the air-pocket, then you will bang your head again, perhaps even be knocked unconscious.
2006-09-18 17:22:59 · answer #5 · answered by Latin Techie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is exactly why they make you sit and use seatbelts.
If everyone got up at the same time they would be thrown to the back of the plane and the tail would point down and the nose would point up and the plane would crash!
This is exactly why they are so strict about seat belts and why stewardesses get so much special training.
2006-09-18 19:03:26 · answer #6 · answered by eightpack@sbcglobal.net 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Regardless of if you are sitting in the chair, standing in the isle, or jumping up in the isle, you and the aircraft is travelling at the same rate. When you jump up, you continue to move forward at the same rate as before (which is the speed of the aircraft). As a result, you will land at the same spot.
2006-09-18 16:53:05 · answer #7 · answered by tkquestion 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because you and the airplane are traveling at the same exact speed when you jump. If you could jump high enough or stay in the air long enough... it would.
2006-09-18 17:21:32 · answer #8 · answered by j H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you, the plane and the air are all moving at the same speed.
2006-09-18 16:47:53 · answer #9 · answered by Felidae 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
when your feet leave the plane, you were traveling at the same speed as the plane and there was no wind resistance inside the plane to push you backwards
2006-09-18 18:14:19 · answer #10 · answered by crazyride6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋