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> too high to survive a crash, too low for the parachute to be effective This is probably a silly question, but couldn't the pilot just wait until the plane dr
by GordonS 4y ago
> too high to survive a crash, too low for the parachute to be effective
This is probably a silly question, but couldn't the pilot just wait until the plane dropped below the dead zone before deploying the parachute?
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agoThe lower the craft drops, the deader the zone.
- chipsa 4y agoYou're thinking about the dead zone in the wrong way: There's a height X where you can drop the aircraft and it'll absorb all the forces to have the people live. There's a height Y where the parachute has enough time to deploy and bring the aircraft to terminal velocity. If X is less than Y, there's a height where there's nothing to save you. Options to resolve this are: make X higher by making the structure able to absorb more energy, or make Y lower by having it deploy faster.