Why don't we put parachute on the plane?

Question

So in case they loose control of the plane, they can deploy the parachute to land safely on the ground or water.

Answer 1

I'm going to assume you are talking about commercial airline flights.

Take it from someone that jumps out of planes for fun. There is not enough room to put on a parachute in a commercial plane. Everyone would have to wear the rigs before getting on the aircraft. Even if everyone had a parachute there is no safe way to exit the aircraft. You would need special equipment and training to survive the 560 + mph winds and 30,000 foot plus altitudes. Without extra oxygen and protective gear you would die in that environment. The fastest skydiving jumps are at 150 knots, not 500 + knots and are made from 18,000 feet MSL or lower. Just getting out of the airplane could kill you as you'd be slammed into the door on exit. The next issue would be landing a parachute. Most likely this case would use rounds and you'd just have to do a parachute landing fall. That is easy enough to learn. The steering of the canopy would require training. I'd say that about 25% of the people on any flight are not healthy enough to survive a normal skydive. The very young, old, and anyone not in good health would have no chance at surviving the exit, parachute flight or landing.

if every seat was an ejection seat then maybe you could save a handful of lives, but the extra training and complete redesign of the aircrafts would not be cost effective.

In the big picture. commercial airline flights are very safe and not something to worry about.

Answer 2

Expense of initial cost, maintenance, altitude, passengers don't know how to use the equipment, huge liability if offered and someone dies because the pack didn't release.  would be great if it could work though.

Answer 3

Yeah, the plane is moving too fast for that..and it would cost more.

Answer 4

cos we arent paranoid

Answer 5

Two reasons.

In order for a parachute to work, the thing being parachuted must be going slowly, or the parachute is simply ripped off.

When jet pilots eject from a plane, they must wait until they slow down before releasing the parachute.

A parachute big enough to slow a heavy plane, would be enormous.

Answer 6

They already have one useless thing on the planes- oxygen masks.   If a plane depressurizes at 35,000 feet the nitrogen will boil out of your blood just as it does when surfacing too fast after diving to a deep depth.   The oxygen mask (or parachute) would only prolong the agony before death.

Answer 7

they already have that on small planes it would take to many for a large plane and when they open it could rip the plane apart .

Answer 8

Because.

Answer 9

Modern jets fly too high for there to be enough oxygen for you to breathe if you could exit the aircraft. Theres a possibility that you would get your schute caught on the tailplane of the air-craft, or sucked into one of the engines if you tried to exit closer to the ground. The only answer would be an "ejector seat" as fitted to fighter air-craft,where you would be fired 100ft into the air,whilst falling you would be breathing a portable supply of oxygen (contained in the seat), upon reaching around 30,000ft you would automatically part from the seat together with your parachute, and hopefully land well away from shark infested waters !. ha! ha!

Answer 10

Because your azz won't pay an extra $20 per ticket to cover the cost!