Are jumbo jets built to shatter on impact or what, why don t they have jumbo parachutes?

Question

Are jumbo jets built to shatter on impact or what, why don t they have jumbo parachutes?

Answer 1

if they stocked a parachute for ever passenger they would either 1. have to decrease space for luggage 2. decrease space for passengers or 3. have to make bigger planes. which are less fuel efficient therefore decreasing profit per passenger (not to mention development cost) But they build them bigger anyway just to sell more seats.   Either way you slice it, parachutes aren't cost effective, so why would they bother?  Like they are going to take the profit cuts, and like you would take the increase price.

Yours,

Willem

Answer 2

There is no parachute, no matter how large or strong you could build it, that an airliner could even carry, that would allow a two hundred ton aircraft to be gently lowered to the ground.

Parachutes have been developed for light aircraft but we will never see them on large airliners.

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Answer 3

Basically, they are designed to shatter on impact. This isn't really intentional, its a result of design necessities. Airliners can crumple and absorb low-speed, light impacts but high speed crashes require too much material. The reason for this is that an airliner is built to be lightweight in order to fly.. It seems like a strange thing to say about something so huge, but they are essentially hollow, wings and all. They are very strong in relation to tension, but building one solid and strong enough to survive a high speed crash would make them too heavy to fly. Parachutes for the aircraft itself are mostly impossible, because you would need a 'chute a mile wide to hold enough air to land such a large plane. Parachutes are being implemented for small, lightweight aircraft like Cirrus, but airliners are just too big for that to work.

Answer 4

No, they aren't built to "shatter" on impact.

And a jumbo parachute wouldn't work. It will on the lighter aircraft such as Cessna's and Piper's but on a 747 you've got so much weight the parachute would be too big to even keep anywhere, and it still wouldn't guarantee a safe landing.

Answer 5

By the time you've figured out you need the parachute...it's too late!

They usually don't shatter...they explode in a tremendous fireball thanks to the jet fuel on board

Answer 6

The size of the chutes you would need to make a safe landing that way would be absolutely enormous. And the extra structural reinforcement and the chute system itself would probably reduce the cargo or passenger capacity by a significant amount. It is just not cost effective for the rare occasions where it might be useful.

And not every crash would benefit from a chute. If they had an engine failure on take off for example they wouldn't be high enough to use the chutes anyway.

Answer 7

Like commercial airliners? They don't really make any airplanes that are designed to fall apart on impact, except for that experimental "flying bomb" kamikaze plane that j**s and krauts had tested in WWII. Parachutes? Could you be more specific?

Answer 8

The structure of an airliner is very rugged, and they are designed to land off-airport with minimal damage to the aircraft, in the unlikely event of an equipment failure so drastic as to require an off-airport landing.

The fuel system is designed to minimize the likelihood of fire, and jet airplanes use fuel that is less flammable than gasoline, to further reduce the risk of fire.  "Crashing in a ball of fire" is a very unlikely outcome.  The person who posted an answer that said so is just making fun of you.

The crew on an airliner are highly trained in how to handle all kinds of unusual situations and emergencies that might arise, and to get the passengers to safety in the simplest way possible.

The airplane will not "shatter on impact" -- believe me, they are tough.

Answer 9

no its just to heavy nothing strong enough would be able to keep it together if if they did it would be too heavy and costly and the odd of a boeing going down  are too slim and a parachute is just more weight wich mean less passenger and that leads to less cash mooony in da bank ;)