Why Don’t Planes Carry Parachutes?

Video written by Ben Doyle

[tzkelley]

Way back in the day I was an instructor pilot and flew a T-38 (old supersonic trainer) to a civilian airport. The plane broke and I had to take a commercial flight home and was told to bring my parachute back with me. I got on the plane with my helmet, parachute, flight suit, etc. and the pilot looked at me and said "what, you don't trust me?"

[opfgnyj]

Because the last time a pilot brought a parachute onboard, he kamikazed the plane for a ridge wallet sponsorship

[starlmo]

As a former paratrooper don’t forget to jump behind the engines

[zacharyh.]

6:53 There's a really good reason the TSA lets you bring a parachute on the plane: us parachuters like to travel to other places to skydive sometimes.

[mirrenboarish]

Redundancy, 5:37 "every critial system is going to be at least double or triple redundant." Except of course MCAS, which Boeing decided could rely on a single sensor because it saved them money.

[Syunnnnnnn]

3:42 and this is why i strap 50kg weights too myself whenever I am flying, get my moneys worth

[Swordsman]

One other thing that he didn't mention: You can't open the exterior door at 35, 000 feet. Unless the plane has already been depressurized and somehow you're not dead, those doors are designed to move inward before turning open. Due to the nature of air pressure being higher inside the plane than outside, this would make it impossible for a person to open the door at that high altitude while the plane is pressurized, because all that pressure is pushing out, thus making the door going inward not possible since there's very little pressure on the outside pushing in. Some crazy passengers have tried to open the emergency door mid-flight and all of them could not do it.

[DanielLCarrier]

I think it's funny that so many people think planes should have parachutes, but nobody wears a helmet in the car.

[genentropy]

Skydiver here. TSA lets us bring parachutes on board because we like to travel with our rigs to different countries sometimes. It's usually better to check it, but it's very expensive gear so some people naturally do not want just leave in the airlines hands and hope for the best,

[georgegonzalez]

There's another reason: more people will die if planes have parachutes. That's because ticket prices would have to go up like 10% or thereabouts. If you study consumer behavior, a few percent of people will instead drive rather than fly at those higher prices. And guess what-- driving is thousands of times more hazardous than flying. So more people would die if planes had parachutes. Weird, but perfectly logical.

[ZetaPyro]

No mention of D. B. Cooper? He hijacked a 727 and managed to successfully parachute out of it, after instructing the pilot to fly at low altitude, low speed, and with an unpressurized cabin.

[someperson]

Don't forget Sam from jetlag the game is technically the same too

[olafp.]

Oh no, sam found a way to talk about planes again

[DannerBanks]

An autopilot becoming evil is something that never crossed my mind

[aassassin]

Thank you. I was about to parachute yesterday from my Boeing 777- 300ER Emirates flight from Dubai and this video managed to stop me from doing it or even thinking of doing it in the future. Thank you sir.

[deep.space.]

If a plane is crashing it wouldn't be at 30000ft. Just sayin'

[dannileigh]

HAI: Everything on a plane is double or triple redundant
Boeing: Hold my beer...

[Psy]

The big issue is that the time it would take for an airliner to have its passengers jump is far longer then a crippled airliner could stay stabilized for that without the airliner also being in good enough shape to go for a controlled crash landing.

[njdevilku]

6:01 That's why Boeing connected the system that caused two 737 MAX planes to crash to a single angle of attack sensor that said they were in a stall!!!

[richardwakefield]

I'm LITERALLY waiting in an airport to get on a 737 to houston as I'm watching this. What the hell, I feel like I'm being watched LMAO