Why Don't They Have Parachutes For Passengers In Commercial Planes?
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- Commercial airplanes don't give parachutes to passengers. While airplanes have plenty of safety features that help in landing them safely during emergencies, having parachutes onboard for every passenger doesn't seem like a bad idea, does it? Although it may not seem so, but there are several good reasons why they don't hand out parachutes to passengers as they board a commercial airplane.
Firstly, a commercial plane flies way too high. At that altitude, any skydive would be riddled with countless risks. The temperature at that height is many degrees below the freezing point. Furthermore, the oxygen levels are so low that any skydiver would need a good enough portable oxygen supply. There are many important reasons, all of which are discussed in this video.
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What about parachute for plane itself? Like the parachute designed for space capsules to land on earth?
It sounds stupid and smart at the same time
Some smaller planes do infact have parachutes but larger aircraft are pretty heavy so you would need a REALLY BIG parachute which would make the aircraft even larger than they already are which would need larger amounts of fuel, larger runways and a larger overall airport.
The ideal solution would be to design the passenger compartment to be a jettison able compartment. Like an escape capsule, the compartment would be pressurized, light weight , and buoyant.
There are drawbacks although. The compartment would not be steerable and could hit power lines, building etc however I'd rather take my chance with a parachute escape system than slamming into ground in an airliner). Furthermore, a jettison able passenger compartment is useless in takeoff and landing crashes... which is the vast majority of crashes. Also does not help in cases of mid air collisions or situations where there is not enough time to deploy such a system... like slamming into a mountaintop shrouded by clouds.
A jettisoning compartment system is technically possible but the reason airlines do not have them is cost. The cost of redesigning an airliner with a jettison able passenger compartment and related systems would be enormous!!! As would be replacing every existing airline in service with one of these new aircraft. Keep in mind 747s were designed in the 1970s and still fly today. It's more economical to keep such aircraft flying than replacing with a new one (in most cases) Having to replace every aircraft in an airline fleet ... The airlines would go bankrupt.
Hate to say it but it is more cost effective to let people die in crashes and let insurance pay the settlements than it would be to implement jettisoning passenger compartments.
Maybe a soft padded Nerf airplane that bounces would be less expensive.
Me too always think about that
Most of the time Plane flies above the Ocean...so there's no use of Parachute inthis case
3:02 who said it "Charge me 100 bucks extra but just land this thing safely" and not "100 - 200 zyada lele bus land kara de" 💀
Cheel se akhe 👍
its been animated by an Indian so its obvious that he would put that meme
This feels like stepping into a parallel universe where C&H clips are all wholesome and actually informative.
How come people are not noticing that 😆😆
Pardon but could you please explain me the meaning of C&H?
@@shivanshsrivastav9037 Cyanide and Happiness. It's a very popular series of web comics, they do animated cartoons as well. They're mostly on the dark side of humor though. Might not be to your taste, but hey, who knows?!
@@YeOldeKamikaze Thanks for the explanation. I will definitely check it out.
"when the engine of airplane fails, it doesn't drop from the sky like a stone"
Boeing : *sweat intensifies*
You guys are looking at this the wrong way. Parachutes are a great idea! That's the perfect way to get rid of unruly passengers without delaying the flight.
How does a flying plane get rid of unruly passengers *"delaying which plane?"*
@@samugote like a plane the joke too went right over your head...
@@samugote Huh?
@@kamisama2616 lmao perfect timing
@@samugote u don't need a parachute...you just need a brain
Why no parachutes in commercial airlines.
1. The plane would be flying too fast to jump off with a parachute,
2. A passenger who freeze at the door would hold others back.
3. No one can jump off a nose diving or falling plane.
4. The captain might be the first one to jump off. Happened with cruise ship.
5. The airline would be sued for a variety of damages, injuries, suffering, faulty parachute, failure to provide adequate instructions, etc.
6. No guarantee the parachute would be not be disturbed by rowdy passengers. Passengers taking souvenir parachutes. Parachute must be replace by fresh parachute after every flight.
7. If evacuation by parachute is successful, there has to be a search party to find the passengers all over the country, or sea. Survival pack with each parachute?
8. Morbid reason. Things would be simpler if all went down with the plane.
In short, you're a liability if they suddenly take care of you lmao
Buy why doesn't the PLANE have a parachute? Like one giant parachute that deploys and potentially stops the plane from crashing
@@cjohnson9211
That's a workable idea.
The plane must be stabilized and the parachute deployed before the plane reaches the critical point.
Decisions. Turn and land at the nearest airport or deploy the parachute.
Hope they look into it, and develop the safety feature for it.
@@cjohnson9211 a parachute system big and strong enough might just be impractical. I recall seeing a video about that right here on YT.
That's why we are all told to brace lol
I've had this doubt for many years. Thanks for explaining.
3:00 Was this scene inspired by the viral video of an Indian guy crying "land kara de yaar"?
idk why nobody is talking about this 😆
yeeeap 😂
Yes it is... he's an Indian using AI text to speech
The animations in this were cracking me up. Thank you for that, and the information!
It’s been entertaining reading these comments as a skydiver, especially after jumping over 6000 times from planes like the C130 and a DC3. I know there was a commercial jet with a rear exit door used for jumping at a US drop zone, but was a bit expensive to operate I believe.
Slow air speed and Oxygen helps a lot at higher altitudes :-)
over 6000 times?!
that is a jump a day for 16 years and a half with no days off
you either added a zero by mistake
or u do several jumps a day as an instructor or something
or maybe u just had a very long career especially that u mentioned DC30, maybe a military career
(not hating here, genuinely curious)
would like to know how one can accumulate that amount of jumps
you should buy lottery ticket or something
@@UV0023 😂😂
@@UV0023 I mean he can jump multiple times in one day right?😂 Lol even if the number is cap we get he jumped alot
@@UV0023 maybe, it were his job? Taking person that want to do skydiving and guide them, so he should go together, i dunno about how much dive you take in a years if you a skydiver instructor.
You could bring your own parachute.. but then there is still the problem with opening the door since explosives are off the table. :)
There's no problem with opening the door ! Just SLOW THE AIRPLANE DOWN FIRST, then opening the door would be EASY. There should be parachutes stowed beneath your seat and the overhead luggage compartment should be massive enough to store all your carry on luggage.
Fit the airplane itself with multiple parachutes
Thank you
You wouldn't be able to open the door and everyone would be laughing at you in your pressurised suit.
@@richardyewchuk1508 You can't just slow an airplane down when it has no engine. You could possibly stall it for a few seconds, but I'd like to see 200 people who've just had their eardrums burst from a rapid depressurisation escaping an unpressurised plane without any sort of breathing apperatus in those precious few seconds. You'd have to have some kind of massive door like in a C-130 and force passengers to wear pressurised diving suits 24/7.
In the end we are looking far too much into "safety safety safety" in a situation where a several ton machinery is falling out of sky. I surely would not say, mid falling plane, "I have not been trained to parachute, I'll just go down with the plane...safely"
And they say airplanes are the safest way to travel Lol
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess because way less people die in commercial jets
@@pantac4493 Compared to cars right? That's what you mean, well that's mostly a myth
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess In 2021, 137 people died due to an airplane crash. Meanwhile 3700 people die in a car accident every day
@@sk8jackass1 That's because there way more cars on the road everyday than commercial planes flying. Clearly there will be more car crashes. But go analyze how many plane crashes have occurred, way more than I'd feel comfortable with
Also cars have a much higher survivability rate. Compare how many people have survived car crashes to how many have survived plane crashes or forced landing's, and the statics start to look less favorable for commercial flight. Fact is if something goes wrong while you're on a commercial planes, it's over
They should make planes open from the back like military ones and have the chairs on some sort of rails where passengers would be sent out with them strapped to there chair with a parachute attached to it which would deploy automatically (something like fighter pilot eject but without flying up but flying out the back). This would be controlled by the pilot which would release the chairs at a specific altitude.
Genius idea
I can see it working..
MONEYYYYYY! is the major deal as told in the video.
@@chayanka_kaushik if it becomes a standard for planes than it wouldn’t cost airlines as much due to economies of scale. The military uses similar systems like this to deploy troops or cargo.
@@motubak1622 I understand. I'd love aircrafts to be like that but you see passengers are not very trained for such a jump compared to a military personnel. A commerical flight flies very high in the sky and jumping off from that point will freeze and choke them to death. So they'll need a special suit and a O2 tank before jumping. People are not trained for such calamities and will panic making the entire operation futile and impossible to conduct successfully. Also if you're suggesting to equip the seat and make the passengers wear a suit during the flight then that would not be a very comfortable flight. Airlines are competing for a luxurious and comfortable experience. Assuming everyone just jumps off the plane they're not trained for, everyone will be scattered and rescuing all of them upon landing won't be easy. Someone might land on a sea or a tree or get stuck in a powerline. It'll be a bigger mess than staying put inside the flight until the captain safely lands the flight for which he is professionally trained for. This sounds more economical and safer.
2:57 :😂 Land Karade Wala bhayya.
Yes that meme😂
Same 😂
Such unexpected reference 🤣🤣🤣
@@shubham.1172 yep
Well this was interesting because I always wondered this precise question. Great video!
Thank you for educating us on this topic. It all makes sense.
This is a very informative video, thank you for the explanation and giving out these points so that people can learn. Appreciate your hard work and thank you 👍🏼
One thing I'd like to add: most people imagine passengers jumping out of the front of the plane. In some clips, you can even see the passengers lining up at the front of the plane and it makes sense because in most cases, passengers enter from the front. But they wouldn't jump from the front because they may ge sucked into the engine
Many of these comments are reinforcing my opinion that the average person is not intelligent enough to use a parachute effectively.
I eat crayons
Pizza is better than pasta
Im sorry, the average person will learn about parachutes how? Parachute landing falls etc?
the issue is how to get training
The windows on a plane taste like clear
Extremely good quality video, explained so well and in such small amount of time! 👍
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for a well narrated, comprehensive and calm view on this topic.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Finally one I can actually understand. Anyone who's ever been skydiving should know that a parachute would be useless on a commercial airliner.
I haven't. But I still know they are useless.
Nope.
Did you stop watching the video the second he said that? Because he explained a workaround right after.
Why is this? Do skydivers use ballistic chutes?
Finally found the answer. Form here on my question will be " why don't airlines have evacuating pods"
Easy, too expansive.
@@kaydens6964 Not for everyday. Duh!!
@@lemmetellyousomething679 expensive
Thank you for the translations you have provided in captions!
Very interesting! I thought of the idea of bringing my own parachute on a flight if I actually owned a parachute, but yeah just opening the door would cause the strong winds to suck me out of the plane, and with falling off-balance I wouldn't be able to open it. Even if I survived and landed safely by parachute, I likely wouldn't know where I'd be if it's in the middle of plains, woods or a desert. With no residential area within at least 5 miles, I'd be screwed. Overall, I still prefer taking flights over road trips. A car accident is much more frequent than a plane crash based on statistics.
How many more cars is there then planes.. ??
@@rockysanchez8203 I never calculated that, but obviously alot more cars exist than airplanes.
But people survive from car crashes
@@kunalsingh1944 That's true, but I also enjoy the views on planes better, and flights get you to your destination faster than a car would.
@@bracebrooks967 yes and more fuel means more pollution but, hey it is super duper fast
Thanks for this video.
The biggest fear would be to jump out of plane get caught up in the engine on the wing 🤔
Nope. Biggest fear would be getting your eyelid caught on a nail
I think it will be if parachute won't even open 🙂
You just earned a subscription from me.
I love this
As one who has parachuted once, I have to agree, you'd have chaos getting all those passengers to put on the parachute correctly and then jumping successfully. I took training before my jump and someone else helped me put it on and ensure it was OK. I then used a static line, to open it. Now, imagine a plane with hundreds of people, some children or handicapped in some way, trying to safely jump from a plane, when they've had absolutely no training before hand.
so its better to accept death than have a parachute just in case?
@@emman5138 I suspect having a parachute handy wouldn't make much difference. There's also the matter of getting out of the airplane. When it's at altitude, the pressure inside ensures it's impossible to open the doors.
Very well explained.
Thank you
If a plane is ever in a situation where you’d need to jump it would be moving way to violently like a steep descent, wings not level or shaking to even stand up.
If it’s not doing that the aircraft is under control in some way and you’re better in than out.
no, planes (all planes) glide extremely well and only experience turbulence in extreme weather or sudden temperature drops : they technically glide the majority of the flight assisted by the engines.
@@AuralVirus basically exactly what I said which is why I agree parachutes aren’t needed
jettisoned compartments with parachutes would solve the problem, in emergency the plane would fall apart into single compartments each with a parachute
Informative! But still, innovative features/methods should be possible in dire circumstances (before sure fatal impact); like emergency openings/ejection systems and packs built into seats - with parachutes of course LOL
Do one on why school busses don’t have seatbelts
Great idea.
Because they need to stop at train intersection anyway ... (sarcastic joke) the fact that our society is still at is beginning and intelligence is lacking in so many aspect , we just need to evolve more i think . The general human intelligence is so low that leader can make decision like this to get more money in their pocket and nobody cares , thus , make us human , even more a general lower intelligent society
Because if there's an accident the bus driver won't be able to go around and get everyone out of their seatbelt. And the seatbacks alone are enough to take in the shock to the passengers in case of a crash kind of like airbags.
@@emfromthechi Wouldn't be a problem to have seatbelts that open automatically after a crash
@@benfrese3573 easier said than done.
Very well explained and understandable. Still, it’s interesting to notice that test flights pilots and crew actually wear parachutes, in an airplane that (as per your chapter no. 3) are not meant to have people jumping off in mid-flight
Isn’t it funny that families cannot sue an airline if a loved one dies in a crash, because they only get as much is 100 grand? And isn’t it even funnier that your life insurance policy is null and void if you die in a plane crash
@@yell0wberry this is incorrect. life insurance almost always covers commercial flight crashes, and you absolutely can sue an airline due to a crash. The 100k figure is in IMF SDR and outdated (it's more like 170k USD at current rates), and is the figure for strict liability. You can sue for higher damages if you can demonstrate that the airline was at fault through negligence. In most cases, the airlines settle with passengers for something substantially higher than the 170k.
@@AmbientMorality With your technical explanations, I was almost ready to agree with you 100%, however, I guess you need to take a closer look at the fine print of most life insurance policies, go ahead and I’ll wait (you’re not going to find a credible life insurance company that does a payout if someone dies in a plane crash)
@@yell0wberry I genuinely don't see where that is? There's definitely aviation exclusions, but those are generally limited to private pilots/students actually controlling a plane.
@@AmbientMorality All I’m saying is the last two life insurance policies I had, I was enough of an oddball to actually read the fine print, and both policies indicated that the policyholder was disqualified from collecting insurance if they died in a plane crash, died courtesy of a suicide, or died courtesy of participating in a felony crime. Perhaps the policy has been updated, I’ll go through the fine print once again just to make sure (not that the policy holder could possibly collect insurance if they’re dead, LOL)
I never really thought about it that way! This video made a lot of sense to me. This video’s topic was a question that has been always on my mind, but it wasn’t until watching this video did I understand why there isn’t parachutes for passengers on commercial planes! Thanks for the explanation!
Thank you for trying to explain the rationale behind not providing parachutes on passenger jets. It was a noble endeavor, but not everyone will heed the points raised, clearly.
🌹🌹🌹
It's crazy how some people take it as the most brilliant idea.
Thanks Shakespeare 🤡
Good stuff...
How about several (many) Ballistic Recovery Chute System (BRS) on structural points on the aircraft....maybe on different harness lengths so the chutes don't interact with one another?
Airplane's structure don't need chute because structure itself is chute. 🙂
that's what he said in the end.
"Airplanes can gliding"
So they don't need parachute for it.
@@rajanlagah4529 planes don't always glide well
What works on an aircraft weighing 3600lbs isn’t necessarily going to work on a plane that weighs 1,200,000lbs. Slight difference there
A commercial aircraft doesn't have the structural integrity to support that. The drag from the chutes would tear the fuselage apart. If you built it that strong, it'd be too heavy to fly using a conventional turbofan engine.
I've always wondered why the plane itself doesn't have a parachute...like the re-entry capsules from a space rocket. If the plane is going down would deploying a large chute save lives?
Because the weight would rip the parachute. And it wouldn't stay balanced
First off, the shape, size and weight of the plane is totally different than a capsule re-entering the atmosphere. There is a thing called air pressure which allows the plane to glide through it like how fins on a shark glides through water. This affects the trajectory of how a plane will fall due to the wings and rudders the planes have. (For example, have you ever stuck your hand out the window of a moving car and realized that if you have your hand flat against the air you can feel the air pushing your hand as opposed to having it cutting through the air at a straight position?) A parachute requires that an object falls directly downward without spiraling out of control because if a parachute some how gets twisted in mid air and isn't catching the air pressure that allows it to billow out then of course it's not going to save anything.
Also, a plane is not meant to land with the nose downward neither. I'm sure that's been painfully obvious from the many crashes that have occurred before, but I'm assuming you're thinking that a plane can fall downward in a horizontal position which I can assure you will be impossible due to the momentum the plane might already have from traveling forward. Try folding an paper airplane and then have it drop from a horizontal position with the nose facing forward. See how that plays out. I'm sure you'll realize that the paper airplane will glide towards the ground instead of falling flat on it's belly.
There is a lot of physics and logic that goes into play with this and why you never see a plane utilize a parachute. I'm not a rocket scientist or anything but a little bit of critical thinking and knowledge of how things work will help determine that this indeed is a terrible idea for a plane.
I’ve always ask myself that question to avoid so many tragedies
Another point,
Say if every passenger did jump, and survived the fall and landing, there would be passengers strewn all over the landscape stretching kilometres! And what landscape would they be landing in? Ocean? Stuck up in trees in the jungle on a mountain? Slamming into the side of a city building or getting tangled up in powerlines? Yeah, it's not a strategic jump
Still better than a 99% death rate …
better than becoming paste on the ground
Landing in a swimming pool during a Swedish bikini team party?
It would take few minutes or an hour for backup and they might rescue few. It's better than letting everyone die.
better than serious death on air plane.. 😂😂😂
Nice video 👍. Atleast it helped me to get rid of my airplane fear😅.
Btw why don't you give the source's link in the description? I mean it would be very helpful for the people who wish to know more.
And I would like to ask that what is luck? I mean what would we consider lucky
We usually add references in the description of our videos. The references of this video are now added as well. Thanks for your feedback!
@@Scienceabc welcome:)
Sorry, we missed your second question about luck. What do you mean exactly? Are you interested in a scientific breakdown of what's considered 'lucky'?
@@Scienceabc yes I mean what actually luck is(mathematically and scientifically) like what are the odds of winning a game which has a role of luck as well as hardwork. Since most of the discoveries are accidentals so what role luck plays in someone's life
That's a good one. We will try to talk about this in one of our upcoming videos. Thanks for the suggestion!
I work in aviation and I'll tell you first hand, there is almost no way a parachute would help passangers on a commercial flight. Planes almost never just fall out of the sky and if they do pilots are trained to calculate how far they can glide safely and work with ATC to get to the nearest airport.
IF they still have contact with ATC, most plane carashes will be accompanied by sudden loss of contact with them
can u explain about what happen to the china eastern arlines that crash vertically?
The 130 people onboard MU5375 would not appreciate what you have said.
This is not the first time a pilot deliberately crashing a passenger jetliner
@@cococly parachutes in a plane wouldn't really help with that situation, unless you want the passengers to be able to open doors mid flight (which sounds like a terrorism target)
What if the plane is above mid atlantic.. How the sliding will save anything??!! Its possible if the plane is over land and the altitude is good
I've read this over and over again in this comment section so let me clarify
A commercial plane is not a spacecraft. One does not simply stick 2 chutes on it
Capsules and space shuttles survive parachutes simply because they are built with that specifically in mind. Their structures are far heavier than a plane
They can afford the extra weight because they do not spend much time in the atmosphere. A space shuttle only really glides in its final descent.
An aluminium tin, however needs to survive on earth and therefore has a lighter structure. A parachute would rip this instantly
Are you saying the mounts would rip?
@@mandrakecarnival8952 Pretty much yeah
Doesn't mean it can't be done. Few years ago, nobody believed humans could fly. Look at us now.
@@AnatuGreen "Can be done at all" and "can be _reasonably_ done" are very different. As the guy said, the plane in question would have to be designed with this very thing in mind, which means, it would have to have much stronger structure, which means more weight, more fuel consumption, etc. Making such a plane and still making it flyable would leave much less room for actual passengers while being much more costly to use. There probably could be something like that done, but it would be several times more costly than a normal plane, while being much less useful. Not much point.
A parachute would rip this instantly? There are already planes with parachute systems, adding them to commercial jets is a viable option.
An entire video explains exhaustively why parachutes on commercial airliners wouldn't work, including physics, aerodynamics, human psychology, biology and engineering reasons.
CZcams Commentators: But I still want one because I would need it *facepalm*
Either they weren't paying attention on video or they are just really dumb to think they have better chance of staying alive by jumping from plane at a height that even the pro skydivers wouldn't attempt to jump from.
No it doesn't. It explains why they would work with some extra investment from airlines.
@@KamikazeCommie501 Nope. You clearly weren't watching the video. To invest in parachutes for every passenger, you'd literally end up with such an overbuilt plane that it wouldn't be feasible. Plus it definitely did say that jumping from height, fighting with panicky passengers, the build of complex parachutes, none of it is feasible for commercial airlines.
@@AndoCommando1000 'feasible' = too expensive. That's not an argument, it's an excuse. How much are the airline companies paying you?
@@KamikazeCommie501 the video literally explains that not everyone is trained to skydiving, so not only the ticket prices would be expensive, the investment would be redundant too
They should have ejecting seats with built in parachutes and oxygen masks that can only be activated by the pilot when at lower levels if the pilot is sure they can't land the plane.
That's another good option.These airlines know these but business is more important than lives.Until we all unite and threaten their business then you will see positive answers.
@@sportsgeek4335 do either of you two geniuses have even the slightest idea of how ejection seats work?
@@CharlieNoodles I swear these people think a parachute glides down like a feather like in a cartoon and an ejection seat is like a carnival ride... Ejecting everyone? gg you just injured 300 spines with one button press, the old and frail probably died and probably more injuries and death will follow when they land. Sounds like a great idea
@@qtrg5794 not to mention what happens to the children in those seats or the infants sitting in their parents laps or sleeping in the bassinet lol. But these fools only seem to be thinking about themselves so for everyone else it’s your lookout.
@@CharlieNoodles well then everybody die so much better. If the pilots know thet they cant land the plane then just die instead of find a way to survive. As an enginieer i belive there would be some way to survive.. Just so much money to invent and use that.
Plus imagine the safety briefing if it also included how to put on, deploy, and land using a parachutes.
people willingly pay for driving lessons, why not a 1st time flier simulated parachute training a month prior to flight or when convenient but license must be obtained - we put far more safety into cars that people pay for willingly -you can tell me a millionaire if offered a parachute for £500 would turn it down when flying business?/1st class?.
@@AuralVirus Well let's see here:
A: Parachutes are bulky and space is at a serious premium on a plane, where are you going to store them?
B: To jump out of a plane you must be low enough to not need oxygen & flying slow enough to survive the jump - not likely in an in flight emergency.
C: You need to exit using a door behind the wings so only part of the exits on a plane would work & when people panic at the word parachute you can bet they'll use the wrong door.
D: Finally, there's the simple fact that learning to parachute is more complicated than the simple class / simulation you're suggesting. Also, people lose their minds when airport security takes too long - what on earth would make you think they'd accept being made to pay & take the time for a parachuting class prior to flying (which isn't cheap even without the cost of the class).
Shall I go on?
why would you make people take a test an hour before the flight? obviously as a first time flyer they would have to gain a "licence" not different to aplying for a passport just with a simple profeciency test in how to deply and land - it's a proventative measure that may save some - if a plane crash everyone dies, with chute even if 1 survived it would be worth it, likely more would.@@swbigfan1
Nevertheless, they still could have the passenger compartment designed to detach from the rest of the plane (via explosive bolts) in an in-flight emergency (assuming the plane is high enough in altitude - or even design it with "ejection rockets" to propel it higher up, as with fighter plane ejection seats in such a situation) .. The compartment would remain totally sealed after deployment and the compartment would come down slowly and safely on maybe 1/2-1 dozen large parachutes that also deploy at the time the compartment is ejected, similar to the way the Apollo command modules did on Earth reentry. Bottom line: (1) emergency arises, (2) captain instructs passengers to all strap in (if they haven't already done so), (3) oxygen masks deploy, (4) cabin crew run and strap into seats kept open for that purpose near the front of the passenger cabin, and, finally, (5) a "fail-safe"-designed button is pushed by the capt. from his/her passenger seat location to initiate the compartment deployment. Sure it may cost additional $$ to have airliners incorporate this design, but aren't dozens or even 100s of human lives worth it? I would think passengers also wouldn't mind paying a few extra $$ per ticket for this safety feature on their plane.
That would be an engineering nightmare to make such a design reliable and safe. It would cost a fortune and its return would be minimal. It would be useless for incidents during landing and take off and incidents where the plane controls are compromised. Also what about the pilots?
Dude, just become a president, and ride in Air Force one with all those cool features. Your average cheap plane cant have all that fancy stuff.🤣🤣
@@beigefox6579 Air Force One does not have anything like that. Entirely too complex and likely adds more risk than it reduces
@@AmbientMorality Airforce One has an escape mechanism for the president. Doesnt have to be exactly what OP posted, but as long as the "secret cabin" can eject, its will serve the same purpose.
@@beigefox6579 no it doesn't...
The assumption that the average airline passenger couldn't manipulate a successful jump in an emergency pervades this entire video; and I, as a former Delta Airlines flyer, took that sentiment to heart.
You are agreeing with that statement right?
They should make license to fly. You can't board airplane before you learn how to parachute. LMAO
@@ronironi6912 Not really, you just only give people who are trained a parachute :) The others can go with "no risk no fun"
@@benfrese3573 Haha. Good idea. Plane will have free parachute. But only passanger who have the license, will be given parachute lol. It will force people to learn how to use it lmaooo
@@ronironi6912 that would be an exceptionally dumb idea. Do you know how expensive parachute training is?
"The plane doesn't just drop out of the sky like a stone"
MCAS INITIATED
The plane itself could have two parachutes on top. Manned space capsules are slowed down by parachutes and these withstand the deployment stress.
Do you know how large a parachute would need to be to slow down a fully loaded a380?
@@vernethall7958 Innovation. Obviously they'll make a lighter but stronger one.
The plane would need to come to a complete standstill in the air and lose all of its forward momentum in order to deploy it. Otherwise that parachute will be torn right off.
No the plane could have two VTOL engines at the bottom to slow the descend - very large powerful engines.
@@alexman8800 are you.... Serious?
I'm an ex-military parachutist and the part about passengers not being trained to use parachutes cannot be overstated. On our jump course we did nothing but drills on dry land for two weeks before we even set foot on an aircraft. And when we finally did make our jumps everything was done in an orderly fashion led by the jump-master. Even if some of the other obstacles could be overcome, I can only imagine the chaos on a passenger plane full of panicked people with no clue what to do . . . . you'd have people jumping over one another trying to get to the door, parachutes deploying inside the plane, people trying to smash windows. And finally, sport jumpers and military parachutists jump onto drop zones that they know, which wouldn't be the case for a passenger plane dumping people out in the middle of the night over who knows where? All this might make for a good comedy sketch, but totally unworkable in real life.
Well said. Like most things in life the idea is very simple but few people bother to think about practicality.
yea in the uk psratroopers and parachute trained sas are elite (paratroopers) and special forces (sas) groups they require special training snd are rewuired to pass higher standards than infantrymen
Doesn't matter. You get trained to safely land. A beginner can easily use a parachute to survive. Upon lading he might break a leg or two which is still better than dying. And the emergency unit will go to the location of incident to rescue people. Better than nothing. Only thing matters here is money.
@@dolme4789 Have you thought what ordinary people think when jumping for the first time?
@@dolme4789 I agree, I just kind of said the same thing. Didn't see your comment, I just got pissed on the OP for that dumb statement that a passenger couldn't do it when it's clearly most passengers could do it
Throughout my entire life, I've never been afraid of flying. My mother worked for Delta, so, my whole family flew for free and I definitely took advantage of that. I've flown COUNTLESS times in my life, however, a few years ago, for no reason whatsoever, I suddenly became afraid to fly and haven't flown since. Even the thought of flying scares me and I have no idea why, especially after flying from the time I could remember, till I turned 27.
Dealing with the same thing. Maybe it's a part of getting older?
@@jgavpercussion I don't know, but even thinking about the hundreds of fights I took, while I was at 33,000 feet in the air, gives me knots in my stomach. Even as I sit comfortably in my recliner, the thought of flying terrifies me. I honestly can't see myself every getting on a plane again, and I don't understand why I now feel this way.
@@danieldevito6380 I feel you, its roughly the same with me, Ive flown a lot when I was a kid and even last year ( 8 times last year) but I am SO scared now that I will never see myself in a plane again, unless I for some reason have to.
Hm, that's actually interesting. Have you guys thought about that a lot? I mean we all know the sensation to get think about a subject too much and list all the things that can go wrong?
@@benfrese3573 Not at all. In fact, I remember when I had flown down to Atlanta back in 2015, me and my step father watched the movie Flight right before leaving for the airport and it still didn't bother me. This fear of flying just suddenly came on and I haven't been able to shake it. At least I can take solace, if I never fly again, in the fact that I was able to fly all around the country, MANY times, before becoming afraid.
3:00 this scene is based on Indian parachute meme 😂 the guy speaks same dialogues
Bhai 100-200 extra lele
I think the idea of a passenger compartment that can be separated from the plane's main structure is the best idea I've seen.
What is that idea?
A container that is a structure by itself that holds all passenger seats, and has a big parachutr. I think?
yes except it's too expensive for the plane companies, and would literally be cheaper for them to just let the passengers die and pay insurance then to have a whole new fleet of these airplanes.
@@bugboy491 we get it "capitalist company would rather kill people than lose money" but if thats the case why have oxygen masks for an emergency?
That "best idea ever" pops up every few months, because of course, random internet people believe that engineers never had that idea and never tested it.
Making a detachable capsule greatly reduces the resistance of the entire plane structure. The plane would split in half during landing because instead of having a strong and flexible one piece structure, it would require several moving parts and all the forces that the plane experience would be focused on those points.
Then there is the second problem, when would you detach the capsule? 99% of the problems happening mid-flights still lead to a safe landing, including loss of engines. Pilots are trained to do emergency landings and even in case of engine failure, they will more often than not save the plane. The moment you detach the capsule, you no longer have any control over where and how it lands. Even with a perfect parachute reducing the speed of the capsule to almost nothing, the capsule would still most likely violently crash and kill the passengers.
Third problem: once you detach the capsule, where are you going to land the rest of the plane? You will no longer have any control over the trajectory of the plane carcass itself and could end up destroying a city.
Then the last problem, the parachute itself. A capsule with 200 passengers would weight at the very least 30-40tons, moving a 800km/h. There is not a single fabric that could withstand such forces.
Mankind invented flight over 100years ago, millions of engineers have worked on plane safety over the years, if you think you can outsmart them and come up with unique life saving solutions, you are delusional at best.
Should've just said money lol
Thanks for your reasons. Still doesn't mean that it's an impossibility to implement. Few years ago nobody believed that humans would fly. Now look at all we've achieved because some people believed and worked hard for flight to be possible.
One day, deaths from plane crashes will become very rare. Because someone will believe and find a solution. Others will follow.
deaths from plane crashes are already very rare? wayyy more likely to die in a car crash than a plane crash
@@AmbientMorality Yes. This is very true
Deaths from plane crashes are extremely rare already...I mean commercial planes
@@Edy.10 Yes Eddy, that's true. And so is survival of a plane crash. It's extremely low too.
We can do better. We've sent men to the moon and back. This is something that can be done if we decide and determine to.
@@AnatuGreen Completely agree, my dude
Can we just appreciate how much funnier plane crashes would be if all you saw was ~250 people trying to parachute with varying degrees of success?
Seriously though, as a skydiver, we wouldn't need training if the average person could operate a parachute without it 😂
And paratroopers in the militery wouldnt need hogher levels of fitness and training than average infantry if anyone could just use a parachute
Why not a large Ballistic parachute at the tail of the plane?
That's an interesting idea. However, there are limitations to that as well. Commercial planes are extremely heavy objects going at a very high speed. A whole-plane parachute that supports that kind of mass would have to be extremely large in size and consequently, very expensive. Interestingly, this idea of whole-plane parachutes is actually implemented in some small planes.
@@Scienceabc Yup - you'd need a parachute that took up half of the volume of the plane.
@@Scienceabc i was thinking the same why dont they use two big parachutes one on the tail and one above the cockpit..... you can dump the fuel and the crash impact wont be that hard and you can save some lifes
@@MarkMichalowski that's not true. Apollo capsules carried chutes and they didn't take up half of the volume of it.
@@i-heart-google7132 Apollo capsule weights 100 times less than a commercial airplane, and was designed to withstand the forces entering atmosphere at almost 10 times the speed of sound. Jet plane built to withstand a parachute landing would be like a nuclear submarine, and could not even fly.
Imagine holding your baby while trying to pull the string, or trying to tell your baby to pull their cord.😂🤦♂️
better than burning alive with your baby with no other possibility ...
I've flown several times in my life and I honestly still can't fathom how I got through it. It's insane that so many people fly all the time
God created the unseen laws of gravity and the law of lift which supercedes the law of gravity 😀. Many other laws are in the Bible 😉
What if passengers wait with the jump until the plane reaches lower heights and get a short parachute training before the flight? Planes could be also redesigned to have an emergency parachute door, from where passengers could jump safely
Most of crashes happens during take off or landing or very rapidly. Even all pasangers have educations and the plane has big doors. They probably wouldn't make it until the impact. Only option I believe is to add evacuation seat for each passenger seat like in military but it is another if
Come back to earth dude..🙆🏻♂️
@@speedbird9313 You never tried flying? It's better in the air... What kind of bird are you, earth-bound Speedbird? An ostrich maybe, which cannot fly?
@@illestothvisualz9148 I dont fly that much, I just fix them..And try to deal with crazy muppets like yourself on occasion😆
short parachute training? wtf are you on? and that parachute door better be as big as the entire plane
There have been plane mounted parachutes to ease a plane down safely for years, but the airlines don’t use them because of the weight and cost.
Hmm that's what he said in the end.
Airplanes can gliding and they don't need parachute for it.
Wake up
@@rajanlagah4529 not when they lose wings or any other part that keeps them on the air
@@rajanlagah4529 chinese Boeing crash has entered the chat
@@ubobu3613 deploying a parachute with an aircraft in a vertical dive like that would simply rip the parachute off, so no it wouldn’t save the plane.
What you fail to take into account is that those plane mounted parachutes are only available for light aircraft. Something the size of a jet airliner is just too big and too fast for a parachute system to be successfully deployed.
3:01 😂😂 100 lela bas land karada
What about cargo planes where there's only about 4 people on board? UPS 6 could've used some parachutes.
still likely flying too high.
That’s not a commercial airplane made to carry lots of people
@@mattmcrae using a parachute requires training. and the last part if you didn't see it's almost impossible to have a plane full of panicing passengers line up to jump out.
@@sheilaolfieway1885 four people should be managable though... still your comment about training is valid.
@@sheilaolfieway1885 How much training?
Short answer: "would be too expensive"
I'd still take my chances with a parachute opposed to descending from 30.000 feet with a seatbelt.
Why not provide just a few parachutes so in case of emergency, the passengers and crew will have to fight for them.
Survival of the fittest!
that would be indeed cool, you can also have some that are not working properly but it only shows after deployment (like the ones colored red have holes) - that way you can have a good laugh at those idiots and the survival goes into a second round
3:41 No 5 is the actual reason, the other ones are there to make it look more viable
I don't know where you're getting that from. All the other reasons are perfectly valid and sufficient on their own. Even if it didn't cost any money whatsoever, you would never see parachutes on a commercial plane. It just doesn't make sense.
Planes have been ripped apart mid flight and passengers found still strapped to their seats. Meaning the plane was high enough for them to regain consciencesness and possibly access a parachute that's falling at the same rate they are and attached to the seat.
All they need to know is to pull a clearly marked strap to deploy, not the intricacies of the parachute itself.
In most cases those passengers died instantly when their bodies were exposed to 800km/h winds and sudden pressure drop. If not, they'd be unconcious, and propably died of hitting plane parts or other debris, hypothermia or lack of oxygen within one minute. But yes, they would still be strapped to their seats.
You mean a parachute built right into the seat itself with a pull strap coming out of the seat where the parachute is stored inside? What a great idea.
@@richardyewchuk1508 Lol nope it's not.
@@hakimdiwan5101 R/WOOOOSH
@@byAuracle What?
Actually I designed something that was a capsule that contains all seats. It's a seperate flotation unit made of durable materials with a giant parachute. It can be launched away from the falling craft. This constitutes a complete redesign of aircrafts though so they didn't want to do it. (In the 90s)
I loved your idea
How much weight, bulk, and drag did it add?
@@Rokomarn None, his plan is genius, 100% safe
That reminds me, even if you somehow opened a door easily, at that altitude, the pressure differential between the cabin and the atmosphere would cause an explosive decompression that would destroy the plane instantly.
No, it wouldn't. Don't believe Hollywood movies. Planes aren't made of paper.
WELL THAN YOU WAIT TILL YOUR 2K METERS ABOVE GROUND AND THEN JUMO
How about add ejection mechanism and one giant parachute or perhaps multiples?
You will still die either to unable to breath due to low air pressure, extremely cold temperatures, diseases, chaos, etc.
No
When it comes to money we are lucky to have seats on planes and not piled on top of each other so the companies can make more 🤑
You have to stand on short haul Ryan air flights
we are luck the engineers are not as stupid as most people on thos comment section
Simple: Our lives are not worth it. They’d rather ship more cargo and fill more seats.
Based! Chocolate rain rules.
I stand by the idea of adding parachute. Just do necessary changes to make it work.
Actually after I saw the price difference of the ticket I would happily take the chance of surviving without the parachute
Why don’t they put giant parachutes on the outside of the plane and deploy it at the lower altitudes to lessen the impact of the ground or water.
Because a parachute that size would be too heavy for any commercial plane to lift.
@@KamikazeCommie501 I’m not talking about a soft landing just something to reduce the impact and give the passengers a chance, they could reduce cargo weight or no fat people on the plane fighter jets have parachutes to slow landing speeds and there’s no weight problems and there are light weight materials that could be used.
I'm guessing it's because the wings are a better parachute than a parachute. To deploy a full parachute, you'd first have to slow the plane down with a drogue chute, like you see in drag racing. Otherwise, the main chute would tear immediately. Deploying a drogue to slow the plane down might not be the best idea when speed is the only thing keeping your plane in the air. You're better off gliding down.
Give parachute to plane
What about two big parachutes for the plane and a way to dump the fuel on the way down?
They can already dump fuel
Why not a series of parachutes that would deploy in whatever amount and configuration the speed and altitude dictates on the plane itself?
Cuz they would be useless
@@Red_._. explain.
@@jesse2214 There are a few people who explained it very well in the comments as well, no matter how many parachutes you attach to the plane, they won't be either durable nor strong enough to slow down a plane of that size and weight, which is ALREADY designed to be able to keep control even when the engines are out by gliding. I don't get how so many average people think they can just come up with the "best solution" when the airplanes nowdays are designed thanks to many years of engineering and aerodynamics studies perfomed by people who expertise in this sector.
@@Red_._. your mom didn't call me average
@@jesse2214 Yea, she called you below average
2:01 I'd rather take the risk, okay? I'd prefer to be falling from the sky with a parachute while freezing and running out of oxygen, than free-falling to my certain death.
But that’s the problem. If you want to ensure your death, strapping on a parachute and jumping out of a jet airliner to land who knows where is a pretty good way to go about it. Parachutes on airliners is one of those ideas that fails at every level and the only people stupid enough to even entertain the idea are people who know nothing about parachutes or commercial aircraft. Your best chance of survival in an emergency is to stay in your seat, with your seatbelt fastened and do what the crew tells you to do.
@@CharlieNoodles so ..zero chance
Unless you have some kind of scuba diving gear, you couldn't get to an escape exit without passing out from hypoxia. It literally only takes a couple dozen seconds. Hundreds of people in complete hysteria would be blocking your path. You'd be suffering from the worst head-pain known to mankind. Eardrums burst in an instant, blood gushing for your ears and nose. The depressurisation would also do some ghastly stuff to your eyes. They might bleed, might straightup pop out of their sockets. Rapid depressurisation is one of the worst ways a human can die and there's no way someone could ever follow the procedure of escaping a stalling jetliner under those conditions.
So just say that you want to fall as a dead body instead of becoming a dead body after falling on the ground.
Do you realise that you have more chances to live if you just sit down than trying to skydive?
@@catinthehatworshipper1160 why not wait to jump when it's lower then?
A wow,the video looks great but reading with so difficult, but still help me learn more about English.Thank you for video you have. I saw so many people love the video.Wonderful
Thank you, i have always wondered this
Still failing to understand why space ships have parachutes but not a plane 🥺
It comes to the design. Spaceships have more of a rocket design to penetrate the air while falling ,making the parachutes useful. A regular passenger plane would have a more rounded stick design with large thinner wings on the side. The wings would end ripping if it were to start falling with a parachute. And the wings breaking would make the entire plane lose balance and end up in a position that would most likely crash
@@rookie693 And a space capsule weights hundred times less than a passenger jet, and is built to withstand forces of re-entering the atmosphere at almost 10 times the speed of sound.
How can people make this comment over and over? If you know the shuttle had parachutes, you'd have to know that they're only deployed AFTER LANDING. That's the only time you've ever heard or seen them, so why do you morons think they're used for landing? Or are you just so dense that you mix up the old capsules that used parachutes because they fell to Earth, not landed?
Number 4 is very important. Most people would kill themselves even if the jumped off at a low enough altitude for oxygen and ambient temperature.
Still less people dead vs without it
@@goochipoochie Less people dead, but you increase the chances of how many times less peope die. Over time , you'll have more deaths
Thanks... I need these answers for a long time...
These reasons are clear, but since childhood (and I don't know anything about needed area of paraschute or anything, I am not a paraschutist) I wonder for e.g. 40 ton plane how much paraschutes would be necessary for deploying FROM the plane. Meaning to paraschute the whole plane. Something like Hummers from planes in US army.
Is there any diminishing returns? Meaning there would be necessary so much chutes even the one another means I need two more? Or something like that?
Simple solution: They could manufacture new aircraft, where they make the bottom of the fuselage (including the cargo hold, fuel tanks, and landing gear) ejectable in an emergency. the parachutes (with altimeters) are built into the seats, which would deploy when the bottom fuselage is ejected and the falling seat reaches an altitude of less than 10,000 feet. The redesign of the seat belt would also be necessary to keep a person from falling out of the seat when ejected. Of course, NONE of this will happen because the airlines won't spend the money to do it. Remember a corporations motto: PROFIT OVER PEOPLE!!!
So if a company made this aircraft would you pay 5 times the normal ticket price because of the building cost? 🤷🏻♂️
@@speedbird9313 Considering the 50 billion dollars our taxpayer money went to bailout the airline industry, the LEAST they could do is not charge the taxpayers extra. Of course, one can dream can't they?
@@michiganspencer6920 You`re thinking of your own bubble..that was a bailout for Boeing and American aviation, that hasnt so much to do with the rest of the world😉
@@speedbird9313 Well, just the airlines that took the bailout money could refit. All of this is moot, because companies WON'T do anything for safety unless there forced to by the government. However, they're first in line, with their hand out, when it comes to asking for money!
Not all passengers taking a ship knows how to swim, and not all airplane passengers knows how to fly, so it's ok not to have a parachute.😂🤣😂🤣
Yeah a bit of a pointless video. None of these are actual reasons, they're excuses for airlines to not spend the money.
@@KamikazeCommie501 Just prepare a handsome fare if you want to ride a plane with complete safety features lol
@@ultimateloser3411 I guess the real reason planes don't have parachutes is because people don't care enough. I'm sure the airlines wouldn't mind charging extra to cover those costs, but it's the people who aren't willing to pay. That's fair enough considering you're way more likely to die in a car accident than a plane crash.
@@KamikazeCommie501 Actually it was very informative and actually made me realize how many delusional smartypants there are among the average people
I was thinking about this! I thought what a good idea so I came searching for information.
I like how u explain by full details.
Real answer = Money , they can make it happen if they want to like in every military fighter jet and in many military cargo planes, but our lives are not worth it to them. The recent Chinese crash is a good example of a parachute coming in handy, pilot suicide, structural fails, terrorism, a simple choice vs a dodgy landing, an inability to land and so on, they would just rather we die, end of discussion
What a truly moronic statement from a thoroughly ignorant mind.
Just make a parasuit for aeroplane itself then
Plane is a gurantee way to grave with no escape when something critical goes wrong midflights . I'm amazed at this brave souls that put their lives on this machines everytime.
Thank you for the great video! I'd appreciate if you could add a conversion from feet and Fahrenheit to meters and Celsius as a comment on the screen.
I dont really care abt crashing on rising/landing. Mid flight malfunctions are the deadly ones.. having a parachute would still give you a chance.
I live near solo. The Bengawan Solo River was once an emergency landing site for Boeing planes because both engines malfunctioned due to an ice storm The only person who died was the flight attendant who opened the door and tried to jump into the river using a life jacket. At that time the plane was flying low over the wide river. So the flight attendant jumped right on it. The flight attendant died from hitting his head on a rock in the river at a depth of 3 meters.
No it wouldn't. You'd be dead if you tried to jump at cruising altitude and speed. 800km/h would snap your spine like a twig, turn your internal organs into gravy and rip your body parts off. And you'd most likely be dead from hypothermia, lack of oxygen and most likely hitting the plane when exiting. So, no. Parachute would not give you a chance.
@@RoyalMela or fitting the plane itself with 1000 parachutes hahah
@@RoyalMela Really? So ejection seats in fighter jets are fake news? Some kind of conspiracy? I don't think you have a clue what you're talking about.
I'm sorry but I could counter all these points. For the lack of oxygen and cold weather just wait until aeroplane is low enough. 2nd-wtf just give everyone basic training no masterclass needed. For cost and space wtf make the space and get the money.
Counter? You're just proving your ignorance
If pilots can lower the plane to safe altitude and speed for all the passengers to jump - there is no reason to jump! The plane is flyable and they can land.
@@RoyalMela not always..
What if you cant deploy the landing gear or if you are flying over the ocean?
@@jonbonesmahomes7472 If you land in the ocean in a parachute, you are doomed. Hypothermia, no survival gear, and a wet parachute dragging you under.
@@jonbonesmahomes7472 Planes are designed to be able to land in those situations. A mountain or a forest would be a lot worse.
Do u have any idea how much a parachute cost..plus it take training to use parachute...even normal static jump require months of trainin.let alone free fall..
Never thought would say it but makes sense this about airlines.