why don't airlines issue parachutes to their passengers as a safety precaution in case of a plane crash.?

Answer 1

His name isn't Surely, and I think he is serious. It is a good question, but I think the reason is they simply wouldn't work 99.9 % of the time for a variety of reasons:
No proper training.
The height and speed of the jet.
Hitting the wing or tail section while jumping.
Possibly landing in water or other deadly locations

Answer 2

Take it from someone that jumps out of planes for fun. There is not enough room to put on a parachute in a commercial plane. Everyone would have to wear the rigs before getting on the aircraft. Even if everyone had a parachute there is no safe way to exit the aircraft. You would need special equipment and training to survive the 560 + mph winds and 30,000 foot plus altitudes. Without extra oxygen and protective gear you would die in that environment. The fastest skydiving jumps are at 150 knots, not 500 + knots and are made from 18,000 feet MSL or lower. Just getting out of the airplane could kill you as you'd be slammed into the door on exit. The next issue would be landing a parachute. Most likely this case would use rounds and you'd just have to do a parachute landing fall. That is easy enough to learn. The steering of the canopy would require training. I'd say that about 25% of the people on any flight are not healthy enough to survive a normal skydive. The very young, old, and anyone not in good health would have no chance at surviving the exit, parachute flight or landing.

As a skydiver we know that at some point we will have to exit our aircraft during an aircraft emergency, it doesn’t happen very often, almost never, but it does. But here is the catch, you need time and altitude to open up the parachute. We wear seat belts in the plane for taxi, take off, and if needed landing. If there is a problem with the aircraft under 1000 feet above the ground you go down with the plane. In a commercial flight you will climb past 1000 feet very quickly but there will not be enough time to put on a parachute system, nor enough time to get everyone out of the plane. The vast majority of the very rare commercial accidents happen right after take off or on landing…. A parachute would be useless.

If every seat was an ejection seat then maybe you could save a handful of lives, but the extra training and complete redesign of the aircrafts would not be cost effective.

For more information about traveling with a parachute you can check out www.uspa.org and there is a link to the TSA rules about traveling with rigs.

In the big picture. commercial airline flights are very safe and not something to worry about. I travel for a living. Taking two or more flights a week across the US. I hate landing in planes because I’d rather be jumping out and landing my parachute, but it is impossible to do that safely from a commercial aircraft; never mind the less than legal part of it.

As for flotation devises, I don’t know about you, but when I get into water all I do is prolong my drowning. I’m very glad there is something there to help me float if needed. The parachutes are pointless, the flotation device, might of might not be useful, but I like having the piece of mind. Perhaps having a parachute on the plane would give piece of mind, even if it couldn’t be used.

Answer 3

A. You'd die from freezing or lack of oxygen jumping from an airliner at altitude.

B. Most airliners break into many pieces in the air when something goes that wrong.

C. Where are they going to stash a couple hundred parachutes?

D. What a question. So dumb.

Answer 4

the logistics of organizing a plane full of panicked passengers to strap on a parachute and jump out in an orderly fashion that will not obstruct one another's fall will never work.

Answer 5

good fee. The FAA nor the airlines does no longer see this advice as a achieveable decision. think of what your airline fee ticket will value?, no longer to point what the surcharge for gas could be for carrying the greater advantageous weight of the parachutes, apart from, the plane could could desire to be rigged greater like a troop transport form of plane like the army airborne paratroopers have. ought to you notice your self and individuals of your loved ones lining as much as bounce from a disabled plane at 35000 ft? think of roughly it...

Answer 6

-Air pressure seals the cabin door shut once you're a few thousand feet off the ground so you can't open the door to jump out anyway
-If you could get the door open, you'd freeze to death (it's as cold as the top of Mount Everest up there)
-If you didn't freeze to death, you'd pass out from lack of oxygen (that's why the cabin is pressurized and oxygen is pumped in); it takes about 45 seconds at cruising altitude to pass out from lack of oxygen
-And if all that didn't get you, you need some training to be able to parachute from a plane. 30 seconds of training before you jump won't do it and if you don't die from how you hit the ground, it'd be a miracle.

Answer 7

Because it's not cost effective to buy that many chutes when chances are nobody'd even make it out of the plane to open them.

Answer 8

Surely you can't be serious

Answer 9

Are you serious?

Answer 10

Stupid question