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We are making the assumption that dropping the batteries would actually be useful in an emergency situation. Considering that the plane needs to be designed to
by ehnto 5y ago
We are making the assumption that dropping the batteries would actually be useful in an emergency situation. Considering that the plane needs to be designed to land fully loaded, since you're not dumping the batteries every flight, I think you would need to be way outside the operations planned safety envelopes to ever need to do that.
I think building battery cells designed to fail safely in an accident is probably a more reasonable option than trying to dump them.
- rich_sasha 5y agoPlanes are safe to land fully loaded, but not designed for doing it repeatedly. The undercarriage, IIRC, needs a separate inspection after such landing. This is why, time permitting, planes will first burn off or drop fuel before doing an unplanned landing.
- chrisandchris 5y agoWhile it‘s technically true that they can land fully loaded, using the word „safe“ is not ideal [1]. They _can_ land fully loaded but you are exceeding the maximum weight for landing which is neither advised by the manufacturer nor is it guaranteed that nothing will break. So if you it‘s not an emergency that requires immediate landing, you won‘t go for it. [1] https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/33253 https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/33253
- rich_sasha 5y agoYeah that’s better said.