Re:Rising number of lithium battery incidents on airplanes w...
by jjtheblunt on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:23PM
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You just invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Airframe_Parachute_Syst...
even though i don't know how that would work on a commercial sized plane.
Re:Rising number of lithium battery incidents on airplanes w...
by nradov on Monday May 15, 2023 @01:04AM
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Ballistic recovery parachute systems aren't scalable. The necessary size and weight would be completely impractical for anything much larger or faster than a Cirrus.
Commercial air travel is very safe. The few crashes that do occur usually involve flight into terrain, mid-air collisions, or structural break up. Parachutes are ineffective for those failure modes. The parachute on a Cirrus mainly protects against total engine or flight control system failures, which aren't a real concern on airliners.
Re:Rising number of lithium battery incidents on airplanes w...
by jjtheblunt on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:54AM
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Were the 737 Max crashes flight control failures?
Re:Rising number of lithium battery incidents on airplanes w...
by JetSpiegel on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:39PM
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Parachutes wouldn't help with that anyway, the crashes were just after take off.
First, commercial air travel is incredibly safe.
Second, parachuting requires extensive training which a negligible number of passengers have. It's not like you just jump out of a plane and it works automatically. Not to mention dealing with cold, oxygen deprivation, landing in the middle of the ocean, etc.
Third, it's going to take at least a half hour for everyone to put parachutes on and jump out in an orderly fashion. How many aviation accidents have had a half hour of extra time where they already knew they would fatally crash?