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.
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.