should first class on planes have ejector seats and parachutes?

[HardcoreRobot]

the cost to install and test outweighs the benefit

virtually none of them will ever be used and it is not critical for the actual operation of the aircraft

 

[brainhulk]

the cost to install and test outweighs the benefit

virtually none of them will ever be used and it is not critical for the actual operation of the aircraft

Say a plane has all it's hydraulics go out, it could still slow down enough to let first class jump

 

[MaxPayne63]

Coach should have ejectors and first class should be able to trigger them while watching through a camera for $1000 a pop.

 

[sourceninja]

We spend way too much time obsessing over things that happen to .00000000000000000000000000000000001% of us rather than trying to solve the real dangers to 25%+ of us.

IE, school shootings vs every other preventable thing that kills children every single day.

calling a few dozen deaths a huge moment in history compared to the thousands starving to death on the same day all over the world.

ETC.

 

[Jeff7]

lol @ "oozy"

It's a public school. They can't afford the real thing, so they just get the cheap knockoff brand.

 

[natto fire]

YAbSPT

 

[Childs]

If I actually ponied up for first class, I'd want one of those presidential escape pods from Escape from New York. And I'd expect a stewardess and some lobster inside waiting for me.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Instead of saving the rich and privileged, how about a whole-plane parachute system? I think they're actually working on one now.

Has been out for decades..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Recovery_Systems

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Instead of saving the rich and privileged, how about a whole-plane parachute system? I think they're actually working on one now.

Big difference between a 2,450lb loaded Cessna and a 975,000lb loaded 747...

 

[SKORPI0]

Busted!!!! I was actually thinking of the move Galaxy Quest where the command deck separated from the ship.

 

[SSSnail]

Big difference between a 2,450lb loaded Cessna and a 975,000lb loaded 747...

How about compartmentalize the 975,000 lbs loaded 747 so that only the passenger portions disengage in sections with their own parachutes?

 

[LTC8K6]

Instead of simply being beamed to your original destination from said lounge?

It's too new and specialized and still risky, so it can only be justified in a dire emergency.

It will be many decades before it's reliable and cheap for everyday use.

 

[Syndication]

 

[randomrogue]

Only in America would people worry about stupid shit like this. Something like 200 people die a year GLOBALLY in aviation accidents (with 2001 being an outlier). It's so damn safe that there's nothing to even talk about.

Flying is the safest form of travel.

 

[brainhulk]

Only in America would people worry about stupid shit like this. Something like 200 people die a year GLOBALLY in aviation accidents (with 2001 being an outlier). It's so damn safe that there's nothing to even talk about.

Flying is the safest form of travel.

that's something only people that can't afford 1st class parachutes say

 

[randomrogue]

that's something only people that can't afford 1st class parachutes say

lol

Honestly when I read this thread I thought about that chick who jumps out of an airplane before blowing it up. I think it was a 24 episode.

 

[brainhulk]

This is a great idea. I think with the recent number of rogue pilots/pirates, we should seriously consider this safety feature

 

[norseamd]

you realize that ejection seats in a jumbo jet would never work right. if you can come up with a workable model you might be able to make a lot of money. as for parachutes thought they already did but maybe they might not.

parachutes are definitly a good idea to have on a plane for all passengers

 

[bruceb]

It will not help you. At the typical 30,000 to 38,000 foot cruising altitude, you have no oxygen and the air is extremely cold. You would end up dead. And ejecting from an out of control plane is tricky or you could be hit by the plane. Fighter pilots are trained in how to eject and they still get some injuries when doing it.

 

[brainhulk]

It will not help you. At the typical 30,000 to 38,000 foot cruising altitude, you have no oxygen and the air is extremely cold. You would end up dead. And ejecting from an out of control plane is tricky or you could be hit by the plane. Fighter pilots are trained in how to eject and they still get some injuries when doing it.

Ejector pods with parachutes.

And people say it would be too expensive but it would be totally funded by 1st class ticket prices

 

[The Boston Dangler]

now that's a dumb idea

 

[z1ggy]

You'd never be able to engineer it. Like it was said before, to even make a jump you need to be going below a certain speed and altitude, or if not you need special equipment to make it humanly possible.

 

[brainhulk]

You'd never be able to engineer it. Like it was said before, to even make a jump you need to be going below a certain speed and altitude, or if not you need special equipment to make it humanly possible.

If Soyuz capsules can survive atmospheric entry from space, it can be done

 

[z1ggy]

If Soyuz capsules can survive atmospheric entry from space, it can be done

I was talking about a human being jumping from a moving object in the sky, not some NASA engineered spacecraft that's built to withstand temps of several hundred degrees.

Either way, if the people on mh370 could have somehow all jumped with 'chutes then survived hitting the water, they'd still have a lot of other things to worry about.

 

[yinan]

And that dude can jump from space