Well you do get a life west. Not that it would do you any good in a crash, but your corpse will be easy pickings on open sea. You know the costs of salvage really hurt the economy.
Agreed. Planes: of all the transportation modes, we have to fight the hardest to get on them, and they have the least safety features. It’s like a death trap that also sucks money from your wallet (insert humorous related image, as I cannot include it here).
The seats function as floatation devices, but we have nothing for the LAND over which most flights still fly? C’mon, airlines…
Planes are ridiculously safe, but when something *does* go wrong, you’re pretty much screwed due to the energy involved. If they made them safer, they’d cost more to fly (more weight = more fuel costs). Can’t win.
I was exaggerating and complaining about average perceived generalization for attempted comedic effect. The rant was meant to be ironic. Guess I failed.
well, what would you do with a parachute? are you trained in the usage? how would disembarkment work, everybody would try to leave the plane at the same time, while it’s tumbling and shaking.
actually it would be better to just issue everybody who boards a plane a gun, so that you can end your life on your own terms.
Long as we’re putting together hypotheticals, perhaps mass ejection seating. If the plane is going down to crash, then once it get’s below a certain altitude it ejects all passengers in masse.
Imagine the people dangling from trees and church steeples.
Sure, nothing makes a plane safer than cutting lots of holes into the fuselage and then stuffing it with explosives!
On the upside, it would
a) make a brilliant fireworks display and
b) provide plenty of youtube videos as all the people who are not wearing their seatbelts are tossed about the cabin.
The fun thing is, one of the reasons they do not include parachutes for everyone on board is because that will make the plane much heavier and requires much more fuel to fly, thus more expensive.
Another reason is simply because most people don’t know how to use parachutes and 400 people in the sky figuring that out is not a pretty sight(ramming into each other can cause much more serious injuries like amputating and beheading each other with high speed collisions, which occasionally happens to experienced sky divers)
Actually, the major practical reason you don’t get a parachute on a modern jetliner is that you can’t easily parachute out of anything fly over IIRC 180mph. Over that speed, jumping out of a plane is like jumping three stories into water At over IIRC 300mph, it’s potentially lethal. Modern jets travel at 600+mph. That’s why the ejection seat was invented. It’s also why modern military transports have the a ramp in the back so the soldiers can exit in the plane’s slipstream.
Not to mention the fun of getting 300 passengers rigged up in chutes, lined up and pushed out tiny little one person wide exits all before plane bit dirt. I mean, Southwest could do it but I don’t think anyone else would.
Throwing 300 untrained parachutist out of plane going several hundred miles an hour would result in a diffused trail of bodies leading to the crash sight.
Well you do get a life west. Not that it would do you any good in a crash, but your corpse will be easy pickings on open sea. You know the costs of salvage really hurt the economy.
But there are plenty of cases where one lucky dude got out because he followed all the security instructions like…. you know like that one guy…. err…
This is why I sit at the back of the plane. Lots of crumple zone between me and the mountain…
I took two plane rides yesterday. This is relevant to me.
Agreed. Planes: of all the transportation modes, we have to fight the hardest to get on them, and they have the least safety features. It’s like a death trap that also sucks money from your wallet (insert humorous related image, as I cannot include it here).
The seats function as floatation devices, but we have nothing for the LAND over which most flights still fly? C’mon, airlines…
Planes are ridiculously safe, but when something *does* go wrong, you’re pretty much screwed due to the energy involved. If they made them safer, they’d cost more to fly (more weight = more fuel costs). Can’t win.
I was exaggerating and complaining about average perceived generalization for attempted comedic effect. The rant was meant to be ironic. Guess I failed.
DUDE. More people die in car crashes.
yeah, because more people drive cars!
Nope.
Even when you break it down to to deaths per passenger miles, planes win by a factor of 100:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/14/the-safest-and-deadliest-ways-to-travel/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c1be89742549
well, what would you do with a parachute? are you trained in the usage? how would disembarkment work, everybody would try to leave the plane at the same time, while it’s tumbling and shaking.
actually it would be better to just issue everybody who boards a plane a gun, so that you can end your life on your own terms.
Long as we’re putting together hypotheticals, perhaps mass ejection seating. If the plane is going down to crash, then once it get’s below a certain altitude it ejects all passengers in masse.
Imagine the people dangling from trees and church steeples.
Sure, nothing makes a plane safer than cutting lots of holes into the fuselage and then stuffing it with explosives!
On the upside, it would
a) make a brilliant fireworks display and
b) provide plenty of youtube videos as all the people who are not wearing their seatbelts are tossed about the cabin.
And I’m told that the strategy of jumping up just prior to impact has no survival value (elevators either).
They’ll see. I’ll show them!
But to be fair, they are supposed to be the safest form of transportation.
The fun thing is, one of the reasons they do not include parachutes for everyone on board is because that will make the plane much heavier and requires much more fuel to fly, thus more expensive.
Another reason is simply because most people don’t know how to use parachutes and 400 people in the sky figuring that out is not a pretty sight(ramming into each other can cause much more serious injuries like amputating and beheading each other with high speed collisions, which occasionally happens to experienced sky divers)
On some small aircraft, the entire plane gets a parachute.
I was just recently checking out an SR-22 that a transient pilot had at tie-down. It’s a pretty sleek machine.
I thought those were usually called hot air balloons. 😉
Actually, the major practical reason you don’t get a parachute on a modern jetliner is that you can’t easily parachute out of anything fly over IIRC 180mph. Over that speed, jumping out of a plane is like jumping three stories into water At over IIRC 300mph, it’s potentially lethal. Modern jets travel at 600+mph. That’s why the ejection seat was invented. It’s also why modern military transports have the a ramp in the back so the soldiers can exit in the plane’s slipstream.
Not to mention the fun of getting 300 passengers rigged up in chutes, lined up and pushed out tiny little one person wide exits all before plane bit dirt. I mean, Southwest could do it but I don’t think anyone else would.
Throwing 300 untrained parachutist out of plane going several hundred miles an hour would result in a diffused trail of bodies leading to the crash sight.
Hey Adam, do you draw with yer hands ‘nd fill in the bugs ‘nd stuff with your computer?
My daughter ran up t me and shouted “this plane is DOOOMD!”
Ha-ha! Love it!
…and this is WHY I hate to fly! [shudders]
Bah! Just jump out when you’re 5ft off the ground! …you’ll be fine. 😀
Then again, if you jumped out of the plane, you’d probably instantly freeze to death.