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Why dont planes have parachutes?

Ive read post regarding PASSENGERS wearing parachutes, which is impractical to jump out of a falling plane in -50 degrees. But what about a parachute for the entire plane..?? Im sure there is some lightweight material.. so if anything goes wrong, the plane will hit the ground at say 10 mph instead of 500 mph..

    



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Blunt Honesty
Not cost effective.


TexasBeauty
They would almost never be useful. With most aircraft crashes, there is only a few seconds before when things start to go wrong and when its all overwith. Very very few crashes would allow for an extire evacuation of the aircraft in time. In addition, you cannot jump out of an aircraft at any speed or altitude. You have to be fairly low (not up in the FL300s) and fairly slow (Mach 0.8 is way too fast). Combine that with the fact that the passengers would have no idea how to sucessfully complete a parachute jump and many would not be physically fit enough to survive it...along with the fact that it could quite possibly be over a very barren area with the chutes coming down spread over a large chunk of land, and its just not going to be a good thing.


dummy
Just take a drop cord with you! It'll always hang up on something!


scubadiver50704
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Some small aircraft do. It's a fairly recent development but I heard of this a few months ago. Do some looking around on the web and bet you can find out something about them.


bud8889989
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I asked an airline pilot once, he answered me that it is useless- there would be no time to use them.


rb_cubed
You have a better chance of being killed in a car crash than in a plane crash. As the guy said, not cost effective.


welsh lizard
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it would not be cost effective it would take millions of dollars to invent and make the thing and chances are it would not be need, the cost alone of taking a plane out of service would be hundred of thousands dollars a week


justhinking
and who's gonna teach you to use it in your last 1 minute of life?


SlawDawg, the answer guy
That's not cost effective and it's weight prohibitive.

Plus, a plan is designed to continue to fly or glide, even if the engines go out.

Besides, you still have a greater chance of being shot than you do dying in a plane crash.



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