Why are all airlines not equipped with a parachute per traveller?

Question

Considering that fighter jets are equipped with parachutes, allowing their pilots to bail out. Also, I understand that temperatures at altitudes where airlines fly are more than 50 deg below freezing and lack oxygen. Following the same principle as military jets, however, commercial airlines could be designed to descend to lower altitudes before travellers are allowed to bail out. Its certainly better than the certainty of all 400 perishing terribly in the crash that follows.

Answer 1

because aircraft cabins are pressurized and you cant open a door,also you cant jump from that high up,and chaos would occur if everyone tried to jump at once,and aircrashes are usually instant,or occur on landing or take off,when it would be of no use at all

Answer 2

Not every passenger knows how to safely use a parachute. Plus it would take a very long time to evacuate the plane that way--- if the pilot can control the plane at a low enough altitude to make parachute exit a possibility (you're correct about the temperatures, plus there is an issue with cabin pressurization, and overall height of the jump) then the pilot will have enough control of the plane to make an emergency landing. Most plane crashes happen during takeoff and landing which gives the pilot very little time to react; when a plane crashes from higher altitude, it's usually pilot error or air traffic control error OR something that causes the pilot to lose control of the aircraft all together that causes the crash.

I'd also imagine chaos and maybe even passengers killing each other whilst trying to evacuate by parachute. Even if you can get 2 passengers per minute through each door, that would still be almost an hour to evacuate a 4-door plane with 400 passengers. Who's going to keep people in their seats while waiting for their turn?

Answer 3

Good answers, gang.

One more thought: How would it look if the airlines gave out a parachute to passengers? It's like saying it's not safe to travel by air.

It's crowded enough in the passenger cabin. Can you imagine trying to add a parachute for each person? How would you sit? Fighter pilots have the parachutes built into the seats, and have an ejection handle. That's not possible in a passenger aircraft.

And the list could go on... passenger training, panic, parachutes are useless at takeoff and landing, etc.

Answer 4

Aside of the fact that most accidents occuring during the first few minutes before landing or just after takeoff and there is not sufficient warning much less altitude to jump...

1) the aircraft is pressurized and the doors won't open

2) even if they could depressurize and get to an altitude allowing a jump, people need to have quite a it of instruction on the operation of a parachute/"rig". It is not as simple as strapping it on!

A person could or strike a structure and seriously injure or kill them selves if they don't know how to maneuver for landing. Additionally, there are any number of chute malfuntions that skydivers must be trained to handle like line twist or a main canopy failure of some sort that basically cripples the rig or makes it useless necessitating deployment of a reserve.

Answer 5

trouble-free, Parachutes weigh lots. Having cutes might value airlines 10’s if not a hundred hundreds of thousands a three hundred and sixty 5 days in gasoline value to commute unused parachutes world extensive. Plus they are going to take in fairly some room, which will get rid of seating ability. the rule of thumb for why airlines do something is their obsession to sidestep value. So incredibly, the cost of having the parachutes far outweighs the cost probability of dropping an airplane and its passengers.

Answer 6

Military pilots are trained to use the equipment. How do you propose to train 200 people at a reasonable cost in a quick enough time prior to a two or three hour flight? Considering the number of passenger miles flown each year around the world civil flights are remarkably safe, there are exceptions of course but you should choose not to fly with those companies.

Answer 7

because not all passengers are trained on how to put parachutes on to themselves or their companion... if the passenger does not know how to put the parachute correctly it creates more danger to them...
now let's say everyone knows how to put parachutes correctly... do u expect them to jump one-by-one out of the plane? i think panic will win and they will start pushing each other out the door with out the proper time and distance from each other.. which again cause more danger for everyone...
but then again... that's just how i see it...