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Re:Rising number of lithium battery incidents on airplanes w... by jjtheblunt on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:23PM (#35941088)
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 (#35944065)
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 (#35950284)
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 (#35955479)
Parachutes wouldn't help with that anyway, the crashes were just after take off.