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Go look up some of the recent airliner incidents. It doesn't appear that parachutes would have helped very many, if any. To make matters worse, such a feature w
by russdill 8y ago
Go look up some of the recent airliner incidents. It doesn't appear that parachutes would have helped very many, if any. To make matters worse, such a feature would greatly cut down on passenger numbers per plane, which means more flights, which means more accidents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
- vfinn 8y agoTrue. Quite many incidents / accidents during the takeoff. Also, crashes into mountains seem common as well. Not sure what the reaction time is in those cases.