TheBlessedMAN:
As usual, Explorer has done it again. Giving us informative and educative topics like no man's business. Thanks boss. I cork my gun for you sir.

DanDeeBoss:
Taaaaa!!! I was thinking you landed on rocks, water or something...

True!!! I wish aviation technology experts would do something about it

lefulefu:
Even if it was possible to jump out of a plunging commercial airliner with a parachute i no dey jump. I have a phobia for heights.i had prefer to endure d crash and hope 4 d best.

midnighter:


Lol Jesus should protect me against such a dream, please

Amen!!! Na joke

GloryIsaac:


I doubt that there can be a full-plane parachute because of the Jet engines. In such a situation, the engines are usually smoking already, so an explosion is imminent.
Secondly, the parachute doesn't guarantee smooth landing, it only guarantees a landing that won't cost human lives. Coupled with the fact that most of the time, the plane tires refuse to deploy.
So, a full-plane parachute landing isn't viable because the engines are at a great risk of exploding, and even if they don't, the not-so-smooth parachute landing will most likely trigger it.

Explorers:
Airline passengers have no parachute training.


What you have on every commercial plane are people who have never used or seen a parachute in their lives.

Without a minimum of training, most people would not even be able to strap the parachute on correctly, never mind open it and land safely.

Even on the ground and with plenty of time this is not easy.

In the confined space of an airliner and in a high-stress situation/commotion, it would be even more difficult.

Smily202:


What about the pilot?

DanDeeBoss:
Amen!!! Na joke

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As per the Ethiopian and Lion Air, there were no smoky engines. It was rather a case of autopilot gone rouge. In this instance don't you think, with engines turned off, a deployable parachute will do the trick of bringing them(passengers & crew) safely down despite the bumps of landing?

Engines on fire? Well, they could rig up a mechanism that could eject the engines; since they already have a mechanism to dump out fuel.

What do you think?

TheBlessedMAN:
As usual, Explorer has done it again. Giving us informative and educative topics like no man's business. Thanks boss. I cork my gun for you sir.

Explorers:
Airline passengers have no parachute training.


What you have on every commercial plane are people who have never used or seen a parachute in their lives.

Without a minimum of training, most people would not even be able to strap the parachute on correctly, never mind open it and land safely.

Even on the ground and with plenty of time this is not easy.

In the confined space of an airliner and in a high-stress situation/commotion, it would be even more difficult.

musicwriter:
Parachute should be build into the airplane itself. If those robots could go to mars and have a safe landing, there's no reason we should still be talking about plane crash here on earth. An airplane should be a giant flying parachute. Unfortunately, the manufacturers are more interested in profit instead of safety.

Explorers:


Last resort how?

Did you read the parachuting is pre-planned?

They plan when, where, and how they jump before going airborne.

There is max speed/height when parachuting and this can only happen when a plane is in a good or normal working condition.



To have a plane where passenger can jump, there must be ramp at the back just like the military and cargo planes.

When there's emergency at about 30,000ft, then the crew will ask all passengers, over 200 to pick up their parachutes/gears including passengers with toddlers/babies, and the old.

After that, they will ask them to be on a single file and move to the rear end of the plane.

Then they start jumping, where's the landing sport? Ocean, Desert, Jungle, thousands of miles to civilization.

Think about rescue operation, picking up over 200 people scattered in the sea, desert or jungle.

papaejima1:

There's nothing too difficult implementing a parachute system within commercial airlines. All these excuses you hear are just what they are, excuses! And it all boils down to economy.

Now let me explain.
Every aircraft seat is already a flotation device in case of a crash into the sea. In the event of an emergency, oxygen masks automatically drop for passengers to use too. Now, to get this system to work, a parachute is installed at the bottom of the seat complete with altimeter, a beacon and barometer which automatically connect to a GPS satellite.

The plane has a cargo hold which can be modified to act as a slide ramp or escape chute.

When the emergency arises, the time passengers take to wear oxygen masks can also be used to strap on the extra shoulder harnesses that indirectly acts as seat belts. The floor is opened from within the craft to connect the cargo hold, and the external chute is opened. Each passenger slides into the hold and out the chute. The altimeter, barometer and beacon are automatically activated by the pilot from the cockpit before the evacuation.

The parachute deploys automatically at the right altitude based on GPS readings.

The passengers need not even know a thing about controlling it. They simply land safely, that's all that matters, then search and rescue home in on their beacons to locate them.

Even if they fall into the sea, the flotation devise still keeps them afloat until rescue comes.

This is just one scenario. I could give you more based on dedicated escape pods that can carry 10 persons apiece. The important thing isn't the cost, it is to save lives. The dead count no costs.

Also, the argument about height/altitude is nonsense. Aircrafts don't crash at 30,000 feet! They crash on the ground! Every aircraft must fall to a safe altitude for people to jump out before getting to the ground no matter how high it flies.

It is simple to offer it as an option, just like you do for first class and business class etc. Or A/C and Non A/C buses in road transport. Those who want can take such aircrafts, those who don't want can fly normal if they so desire.

GloryIsaac:


I doubt that there can be a full-plane parachute because of the Jet engines. In such a situation, the engines are usually smoking already, so an explosion is imminent.
Secondly, the parachute doesn't guarantee smooth landing, it only guarantees a landing that won't cost human lives. Coupled with the fact that most of the time, the plane tires refuse to deploy.
So, a full-plane parachute landing isn't viable because the engines are at a great risk of exploding, and even if they don't, the not-so-smooth parachute landing will most likely trigger it.

Explorers:
Airline passengers have no parachute training.


What you have on every commercial plane are people who have never used or seen a parachute in their lives.

Without a minimum of training, most people would not even be able to strap the parachute on correctly, never mind open it and land safely.

Even on the ground and with plenty of time this is not easy.

In the confined space of an airliner and in a high-stress situation/commotion, it would be even more difficult.

GloryIsaac:
Basically, it's clear that parachute for each passenger won't happen, the reasons are too much as you've rightly explained.

I saw an explanatory video about a new type of plane that would be designed to have some sort of demarcation between the passenger cabin and the cockpit. It will be able to detach from the cockpit and the wings in an emergency situation and engage in a free fall for a little time before two very large parachutes are automatically deployed to give It balance and drastically reduce it's impact on the ground or water. Also it will have large floaters deployed below it that can land on the ground and on water.
But, the challenge with this plane is if there'll be strong maintenance on the hooks that will hold the body of the plane to the cockpit and its wings, and an avoidance of a situation where the hooks fail to detach from the cockpit and wings.

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For the sake of multiple concerns about the lives of the pilots, it should be made clear that they are expected to evacuate the cockpit before detachment. It could be by ejection or most likely having to join the passenger cabin before hitting 'detach'.

So, to any pilot reading this, your life also matters, no one is leaving you behind.

femi4:
Its like saying cars should not have fire extinguisher cos people don't know how to use it

kaylo31:
Funny how some pple think that no one has ever considered putting parachutes on an airplane, believe me, the cons outweigh the pros, thats why the idea has not been implemented. Aircraft designers and authorities concerned with aviation safety are aware of this. The only solution for now is to increasingly clamp down on maintenance practices and pilots training and retraining. God help us all

verifiablefacts:

but do passengers have dying training? the parachute should have been a last resort kinda.

verifiablefacts:

but do passengers have dying training? the parachute should have been a last resort kinda.

Smily202:
Nice info from Explorer. The only solution to saving lives during crash is to install the plane with Whole Plane Parachutes that's the only way It May Save Lives It's work in progress and the practice has already been done in smaller planes that carried 5 passengers. So they wanna replicate it on bigger commercial planes that carry over 200 people on board.

MajorJeffery:
It's a fact based on plane accident history. Once an airplane is at a cruising altitude, chances of accident is near zero and even if there's an incident, there will be enough time for recovery. This is why take offs and landings must be executed done manually without the help of auto pilot.

Parachutes can kill too if used without proper training. First time, I so struggled with it that I had to cut it loose with my knife before landing and got injured. Also if used in the commercial airliner, midair collisions when hundreds of people jump out of an ill-fated jet will be another source of worry. It's just an impossible venture.