2007-11-17 08:39:40 · 5 answers · asked by stuttgart 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Hummmm, I flew for over 30 years and have never heard of airbags........am I missing something?
2007-11-17 11:01:36 · answer #1 · answered by walt554 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am a pilot, and I have never heard about airbags in planes. If they are there, fore sure it is not for plane crashes. They cannot be effective on plane crashes.
There are two things that kill in a plane crash: Impact and fire. Airbag will not help on both. Impact energy is too high, and usually the planes dismantle themselves, as well as people inside. Fire... well, it will not help on fire, you know.
If some jets have airbags in a few seats, they are there to attend to a very specific situation, and it is not for crash. A hard emergency landing, I suppose. And because those seats are exposed they have airbags, not all seats.
2007-11-17 16:56:46 · answer #2 · answered by MZ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I reckon it's still curtains 99% of the time if you're in an air crash, airbag or otherwise. Fingers crossed we'll never need to test them out...
2007-11-17 16:43:44 · answer #3 · answered by katatins 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they don't. An airbag will only help you up to around 60mph and few passanger aircraft are still in the air at that speed. If they are crashing they tend to be going much faster and in that case you are toast anyway.
2007-11-17 16:59:52 · answer #4 · answered by Chris H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know of any airplanes that have airbags in any seats.
Some aircraft DO have inflatable escape slides/life rafts mounted to the main cabin doors that can be deployed after emergency landings.
2007-11-17 19:18:10 · answer #5 · answered by JetDoc 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋