Why don't passenger airlines provide parachutes in case of emergency?

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Techwing

Several reasons:

â€¢ Using a parachute requires quite a bit of special training.
â€¢ Parachutes take up a lot of space and they are expensive.
â€¢ Using a parachute isn't practical at the speeds and altitudes at which airliners fly, and the doors won't open at those altitudes, anyway, because the cabin is pressurized (which holds the doors shut).
â€¢ Only certain specific and rare situations would benefit from the availability of parachutes; for other types of incidents, they wouldn't make any difference.
â€¢ Accidents in airliners are so rare that the precaution of parachutes is impossible to justify.

Airliners do not fall from the sky except in movies. As long as it has wings and is moving forward, an airplane is flying; it will not fall.

fun1

Because passengers don't know how to parachute, and jets fly too fast to jump out safely anyway.

thinking

1) Depending on the altitude, most likely there would not be enough oxygen in the air if you got out with your parachute.
2) Are there enough exits in the plane for hundreds of passengers (it's hard enough to exit a plane as it is!)
3) If the cabin is pressurized (and at higher altitude) any opening in the plane would just suck people out in a violent way, not allowing for anything that resembles skydiving.
4) speaking of skydiving, it takes awhile to get correctly strapped into those parachutes and parachuting itself requires significant training.
5) airlines already provide flotation devices in case of landing in the water. The thing those devices most likely keep afloat: hope

(Sorry about all the above, believe me. I guess, if nothing else, I would grab the flotation device, just to keep my hopes up)

sgtbellotti

Due to the fact that Passenger aircraft are hard to jump from,and passengers have little to no training in the use of a parachute.

gromit801

Ok lets see. You're flying at 600 mph, at 30,000 feet. Your plane is in trouble, just what do you think you will able to do with a parachute?

Die from lack of oxygen at 30,000 feet.
Die from the wind blast of 600 mph.
Die in the panic of 300 passengers who don't know how to use a parachute or put one on in the few seconds you might have.

emiliosailez

Life expect6ancy at those altitudes is about 17 seconds!

Peter M

if you this nervous about flying, then dont fly!!

snvffy

Passengers aren't trained to jump
Pressurized doors
Getting out the doors means you're cut in half by the tail section
Outside temps make survival tough

eric53

Pretty hard to bail out at 5000 feet and 500 miles an hour. think about that one. lol

Lobengula

There are a few flights where parachutes maybe could have saved some lives. But they are easily counted. Most people die from burn wounds or suffocation. These accidents happen when it's to late to jump out.

So the short answer is: Parachutes will not save many lives and will cause a major cost.

kapn

Can't get the doors open in a pressurized cabin..........

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