If the Little Black Box is indestructable why dont they just make the entire plane out of it?

Answer 1

It's not indestructable. It's protected mainly by the crushable cabin of the aircraft. Only the data recorder mechanism is hardened. If you built an aircraft to those standards, it would never leave the ground. Imagine an M1A Abrams tank with 3 foot wings.

Even if you had some magic material that was totally indestructible and light enough, the passengers would still all be killed. When the aircraft crashed, it would come to an instant stop but the passengers would keep moving at 500 MPH. They'd but cut in half by the seatbelts which would act like cheese slicers. The body parts would then be smashed into the seat or bulkhead in front of them and all of the guts and goo would spray all over the inside of the aircraft. Nice visual, eh?

Answer 2

I think the follow-up question to this is: Why don't they put parachutes in airliners for everyone to use? Please...use a little common sense.

You want to know what a black box is actually made out of? Plastic and aircraft-grade aluminum. Guess what airplanes are made out of. Yup...plastic and aircraft-grade aluminum. They are made of the same stuff. Black boxes to not break in impace because the shock that would destroy them is directed into other parts of the aircraft. And like was already mentioned, even if you COULD make an airplane indestructible...you'd still kill everyone on impact becasue what ACTUALLY kills you in a stop is the deceleration force. It doesn't really amtter if you hit the ground at 500 mph or the seat in front of you at 500 mph, either way you're dead. Also, its not typically the impact that kills you in an accident, its the fire. Even in the TWA 800 crash (it blew up in mid-air off the New York coast) most passengers actually died of drowning, not impact forces.

Answer 3

this question is asked a minimum of two times each and every week. a million: the fabric and shape might make the airplane too heavy to fly. 2: The black container survives because of the fact of its region interior the plane (on the returned) and then no longer constantly. 3: The black container is designed to stand up to a large impact as quickly as. plane could stand up to take off, pressuruzation, and touchdown as much as a hundred,000 situations. 4: in spite of if the plane became into made 'indestructable', going from 600MPH to 0MPH in some seconds will turn all of us into hamburger. the main deadly area of flying is the cab experience to the airport. 9/11 might could take place each and each month to equivalent North American vehicle injuries.

Answer 4

Yes, it would be way to heavy to fly. But also, think of this.

you are traveling at 500 miles per hour and you smack into the ground. so you go from 500 miles per hour, to 0 in like 5 seconds. Just because the airplane is made out of a material that dosent break apart as much dosent mean that everyone inside will still not die. They will, because of the amount of force that they experience as the plane goes from 500 to 0 in such little time. Things will fly all over the place, and even if they are straped to a seat, the stress on the brain and other organs would be so great that you die.

so,
1. it wouldnt fly
2. its stupid anyways

Answer 5

The same reason your car isn't made of bullet-proof material like the Presidential limousine: Because it's VERY heavy material. That would make the airplane very costly to run in terms of fuel (if in fact it could get off the ground at all), thereby probably doubling the cost of a ticket, thereby putting the airline out of business. NOT a good move. They aren't indestructible, btw - they're just hard to tear apart because they're relatively small and armored.

Answer 6

An aircraft made of the same material as the orange box would be impossible to fly! Its weight and size would be enormous! Not to mention operating costs.
It is equivalent to making a vault fly. Good question though.
Actually some military aircraft are made out of titanium and spent uranium.
The m1 Abram tank also contains spent uranium. A virtually indestructible metal.
Hope this was helpful, keep up the good questions!

Answer 7

Because it wouldn't be much fun to board a black box somewhere and then just sit there. Which is what it would do made out of that material. It would never get off the ground. I would rate this number 1 on the list of most stupid questions though.

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

Answer 8

First of all, it's not a black box. It's orange. (I don't know why it's called a black box.) Second, if the entire plane was made out of it, the plane would be too heavy to carry its own weight.

Answer 9

No military aircraft are made out of spent uranium. A few have flight control counterbalance weights made out of it, that is all. The military does use spent uranium in some of it's weapons, increasing the impact power.

You could be in two black boxes, but when you hit the ground at 500mph, your brains and other innards would still be scrambled by the sudden stop.

Answer 10

a/c blackboxes are not black but orange(for retireval/salvage purposes) they are called cockpit voice recorder(CVR) and Flt data recorder(FDR). They do get burned and deformed during crashes, but they are able to protect digital datas(post mod) or analog(pre mod). They work like fireproof safes but not as heavy.