Why Don’t Plane Passengers Get Parachutes? DEBUNKED

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Why don't airlines supply parachutes to passengers?
Why Don't Airplanes Have Parachutes?
Why don't airplanes have parachutes for all the passengers?
Why Commercial Planes Don't Have Parachutes

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Parachuting is hard and requires hours of training at the very least.

Modern airliners travel so fast that, due to the crushing airflow, as well as the possibility of hitting the outside of the plane, simply exiting the plane could kill you.

Modern airliners travel so high up, each person would require oxygen masks for the descent. 35,000 is about three times the height of a conventional skydive.

Air outside an airliner is subzero. That’s not even factoring in windchill caused by traveling at speeds of 400, 500mph…

Air pressure differential could cause lungs to explode “Boyle’s law says there’s an inverse relationship between atmospheric pressure and the volume of a gas.”

Logistics of parachuting every passenger during an emergency would be insane.

Parachutes are big and bulky and would add significant weight to the plane in order to accommodate every passenger and crew member.

Almost all airline accidents occur during take-off and landing.
“only 9% of fatal accidents in the last two decades have occurred when the plane was cruising.”

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[DebunkedOfficial]

Be honest, did anyone else think the equipment under their plane seat was a parachute?

[GoldFoilThonk]

Here’s the thing, not everyone needs the specialist skydiving equipment. Just me.

[GranRejit]

This channel is specially designed to answer all those questions that I had when i were a kid and nobody could answer.
Thank you a lot for the effort and the love that you put in all these videos, I love them!

[dwlsrpl]

Can you imagine the human crush that would occur when the pilot gave the order to abandon? A plane would have to hold under 180kn at a reasonable altitude for quite a while with incredibly cool customers as passengers to have a successful evac. But if the plane is THAT controllable, it is also controllable enough to land safely.

[SevenSixTwo]

Thinking outside the box, the commercial plane itself could have parachute-like devices to slow it down if in freefall. Those could help to reduce speed to a somewhat survivable one, in an emergency. Space capsules and some military jets already use similar devices.

[georgespencer]

Great video. From a licensed skydiver, I see one flaw. Yes, it takes 25 supervised jumps to get certified to be a recreational skydiver, but there are much less complicated emergency parachute rigs which may be able to be used in an emergency. For example, both George HW Bush and John McCain bailed out of their planes and without any prior parachute jumps. Still would be impractical to implement on the scale described in this video.

[HSamee]

The guy who jumped into the jet turbine was just tragically hilarious.

[rtreax]

Even if it's 1 percent chance of survival, I would jump with that parachute rather than staying in the plane and watch myself dying

[ilemas]

If the plane was still controllable enough to execute a controlled evacuation I think I would take my chances on the emergency landing. Most aviation accidents with total loss happen so fast that there would be no time for an evacuation.

[xYonowaaru]

Imagine you hardly have space to move your arms but suddenly 300 people are supposed to get changed into this equiptment at the same time.

[ludoviajante]

This video editing was one of the most fun I've ever found on youtube!

[stuartmcpherson]

Was a skydiving instructor for 25 years and this is a great and funny video that explains why parachutes are not practical. Have been explaining this to many people over the years. Sensory overload on exit is another reason people can not be trusted to use one even if supplied.

[lifefindsaway]

I’m surprised you didn’t compare the average non lethal injury from an airplane crash and skydiving. Assuming the severity is similar, first responders would find you much more easily if you stick with the group. And there’s a good chance that the other passengers could provide some kind of first aid

[syedmehmoodulhassan]

This question has been on my mind for at least 20 years now.

[Ratok]

There's also the fact that a lot of air routes travel largely across vast expanses of ocean or arctic where a parachute wouldn't do you much good.

[tony.h]

Good explanation and I like the animations. As a solution to all of this, I envision a passenger jet with a detachable passenger section. Something along the lines of the cargo plane from the old Thunderbirds kids show. I could be one big container, or split into smaller sections, with parachutes on the container and perhaps inflatable bottom to make it a life raft if it lands in water. Or, for a more technological future, the container itself could be a self-landing drone.

[PxThucydides]

My son used to ask me the sorts of questions this channel answers. "Why is the sky blue?" "What do rockets push against?" "Who is Mandy and why did Barry Manilow send her away?"

[stewarde]

did not mention the fact that you would need hire people to pack, check, and certify the chutes as a miss packed or faulty chute would also equal certain doom.

[vinny]

Also:
1. Parachutes only work if you are properly attached to them and for obvious reasons this should be done _before_ the emergency occurs so you'll spend an extra 15 minutes at check-in being fitted with a 5-point harness that will be digging it's way into your naughty bits for the duration of the flight. You can't even do a #2 with that thing on so diapers are probably in order.
2. Random people cannot be trusted to pull the cord when they are hurtling out of the plane at a gazillion miles an hour so they will have to be tethered to a line that pulls the cord for them. Again; no time to do that as the plan is crashing down so you have to be attached before take-off. 200-300 people. Try it.
3. Disembarkation will take minutes and during that time the plane will still be doing several hundred miles an hour so the passengers will be landing in a long string of several dozen miles of... well wherever the plane happens to be flying. If you are lucky it's water near a shoreline with lifeguards but it's most likely you'll end up in the ocean with resque several hours away. If you are unlucky you crash on the motorway and get run over, or land in a jungle and never be seen again, or get tangled in powerlines or just get hanged by a twirly landing in a tree. You may even get a short expedition on a mountaintop, hey at least you got to see snow!
4. Danger #1 in parachuting is breaking limbs when you land the wrong way and we're not talking a gently "ouch", we're talking bones sticking out. There *willI* be no ambulance waiting for you, you're just one of 200 others that have landed in the middle of nowhere so you're going to bleed out. A quick splat in the plane would be a much mode dignified way to go.

[ifavo]

id rather take my chances w a parachute than staying in a nosediving plane