If Black Box could not be damaged in plane crash, why isn't the entire air craft made out of this stuff?

Answer 1

I like your thinking...however consider this:

Ok, so the plane crashes down and the plane is fine, but the people still die due to the impact, or some die and some are paralized forever due to their spinal cord injuries!

What money did you save by making the plane out of the same material that is very costly?

Did you ever hear that people die in a car crash but the car ....is salvaged...not totaled?

Answer 2

Once again, my answer is, because the roads are not wide enough.
For those of you new to sarcasm, it means that the aircraft would be so heavy that it could not take off, and would have to taxi everywhere.
The "black boxes" (actually 2 per aircraft, usually.....a flight data recorder, and a cockpit voice recorder) are actually a stripped high visibility orange.
Originally, they were placed where the wing met the fuselage, the strongest part of the plane, however, it's where the fuel tanks are.
After a few burned up, they relocated them to the tail section (when was the last time you heard of a plane backing into a mountain at 400 mph?)
This started the rumor that the back of the airplane was the safest place to sit, but remember....it doesn't matter which end of the banana goes into the Cuisinart last, it all comes out looking the same!

Answer 3

This question is asked at least twice a week.

1: The material and construction would make the plane too heavy to fly.

2: The black box survives because of its location in the aircraft (at the back) and then not always.

3: The black box is designed to withstand a large impact once. Aircraft need to withstand take off, pressuruzation, and landing up to 100,000 times.

4: Even if the aircraft was made 'indestructable', going from 600MPH to 0MPH in a few seconds will turn anyone into hamburger.

The most dangerous part of flying is the cab ride to the airport. 9/11 would have to happen every month to equal North American car accidents.

Answer 4

For one one thing it would be to heavy for another .
Take a small toy car and through it out of the top window you will find hardly a scratch but if you took a real car from the same height it would crush like an orange.
Another is if you hit something in a vehicle that dint crush to some point ,on impact you would continue to move at the same velocity even though the plane had stopped so all your body parts would be ripped apart.
sorry you did ask

Answer 5

It is an increadible misnomer to call the "black" boxes indestructable. I have never seen one from a crash that was not nearly destroyed. Like a car, these are designed to destroy their outer shells to protect their contents from becoming too damaged to retrieve the data they contain.

When an airplane crashes there is too much energy to absorb in this fashion regardless of the construction. According to the History channel, you are 5,000,000 times more likely to get into a car crash and die on your way to the airport than you are to be involved in a fatal airplane crash. Why doesn't someone do something about that instead?

Answer 6

Because what is inside an airplane is soft and mushy.

G's are acceptable on metal parts inside a black box. But people don't like the G's introduced to the body when hitting the ground at 500mph.

Our soft mushy insides like to end up on the out side.

So even if planes were made out of 1/2inch steel, that just means the inside of the plane would like the inside of a half eaten strawberry jelly jar.

Answer 7

The black box has a massive crumple zone the same as cars do. It's called "the aeroplane and 300 screaming passengers".
Basically it gets cushioned to a degree by the actual plane.

Answer 8

OK, for the sake of argument, let's say they do build a plane out of this stuff and they do figure out a way to actually get it off the ground. The passengers would still be killed in a crash. No one would survive smacking into the ground at the speed the plane would be traveling.

Answer 9

why won't they they build airplanes out of the hardest and toughest material in the universe, now can that withstand the impact of 50 tons of metal going at speed of 600 MpH into a moutain or any other solid objects..... think about it. remember the science experiment where you bring a can and leave it inside a boiling water and then putting it inside an extremly cold water...what would happen. now think about a speeding hunk of metal and suddenly stopping in a fraction of a sec....

Answer 10

**When you think of a question, it's a good idea to see if it's been asked before**

It's because it's too heavy and would cost too much. I'd go into detail, but I've answered this Question at least 6 times before this.