Why There Are No Parachutes on Passenger Planes
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2019
- Hey guys! Do you know that there are special, super-big parachutes... for airplanes? But even an airplane can have a parachute of its own, why don't they supply each passenger on the flight with a personal parachute?! Wouldn't it save hundreds of lives should a crash happen?
Apparently, the answer is "no, it wouldn't." But every commercial airliner has a life-jacket under each seat, so why not shove a little parachute in there as well? Now now, have some patience, because to answer this question, we'll have to talk about some parachuting basics.
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Parachuting basics 0:52
Why most people wouldn't even get as far as to get ahold of their chutes 3:00
3,000 extra pounds to the flight's weight 4:16
Safe height for skydiving 5:25
How about a whole-plane parachute? 6:28
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SUMMARY:
- Only specially-trained and equipped skydivers jump from altitudes higher than 15,000 ft. Otherwise you risk a lack of oxygen which can lead to confusion at critical times.
- A typical sport parachute and harness weighs about 15 pounds and doesn't come cheap! All the equipment a skydiver needs to own can cost from $6,000 to $9,000!
- Obviously, it's impossible to fit a 4-hour skydiving course in a 10-minute-long pre-flight instruction.
- Experts claim that most people wouldn't even get as far as to get ahold of their chutes.
- On board a commercial airplane that’s going down, there would be about 200 panicking people. Do you think they would patiently wait for their turn to exit the plane?
- If each of 200 passengers on board had a 15-pound parachute of their own, it would add more than 3,000 extra pounds to the flight's weight.
- Moving along, using a parachute to save your life only makes sense if your plane goes down mid-flight.
- The plane would be moving too fast for the passengers to leave it without smacking the side of the aircraft.
- So far, the largest plane equipped with a parachute can carry 5 people at the most.
- Apparently, a parachute can save a small plane that fits several people, but experts aren't so sure about big commercial aircraft.
- For a large plane, it would have to be not one parachute, but a system of chutes.
- The idea of a detachable cabin was first suggested by Gleb Kotelnikov, a Russian inventor, in the 1920s.
- This more than 9-decade-old plan is our best hope to ever equip airplanes with parachutes. Not any time soon, but one day - definitely.
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Hey there, BrightSiders! Have you ever wanted to jump with a parachute?
from my childhood
NO!
Sliced carrots??? You mean Kakarot???
No.
No
It’s because airlines don’t want to be sued by the survivors!
But if they die there family can
edjwan it will be cheaper. Medical expenses for life is more expensive
Thank you for not making me watch 10:00 whole waste of life minutes
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😅
Lol
If I'm falling towards the ground with a parachute, I'll figure it out.
George Washington You have the rest of your life to figure it out, don’t worry 😉
George Washington best believe that
useless at 35000 feet
You would have a few minutes to figure it out u might flip over on your back and can’t get over and all of that because u don’t know how to skydive
It's better than dying in that plane. At least you have chance to survive.
Oh, skydiving in a thunderstorm is dangerous! Oh, ok then. I'll just smack into the ground instead. At least I won't be in danger!
Nice one🤣
Lol
Hahahaha
ROFL 😂😂
lol
Okay so basically:
- Too expensive
- Too difficult to learn
- People would collide with each other when jumping
- Parachutes for everyone means a lot of weight = a lot of extra fuel = a lot of money
- Crashes mid air happen due to wind or thunder which is dangerous to jump in
The main reason is the plane is going too fast for a safe exit. Too much risk of colliding with wing and tail. They made the calculation which is safer, parachutes or staying in the plane.
One more point: most of the crashes happens during takeoff and landing...
yeah, it's better to die in a crash.
Also is way to impractical
And yet i don't give AF, still give me a parachute!
Bright Side is a Bright Site :)
More like bright side is a dark side
Am I allowed to just bring my own parachute then?
kylie Lax I’m sure they do have parachutes, but bright side (a Russian company that also runs 5-minute-crafts) made this video up.
@@hallowizer440 on its troom troom
Hallowizer Yeah, I don’t trust these people.
kylie Lax what do u think?
@@BRIGHTSIDEOFFICIAL Hey, I know you're Russian, and I know you also run 5-minute-crafts! I have also seen that you steal videos from other channels, such as Half as Interesting. I would be suing you if you were in America.
Even so, having a parachute still would increase your chances of surviving the fall.
It would not. 99.9% of the passengers would die 99.9% of the time it's a terrible idea I have skydiving experience
@@PabloGonzalez-hv3td I think deployment of bulletproof fire resistance airbag in front back s side surrounding cocoon ,like in space re entry and motor racing
@@redd605 - What form of motor racing uses fire resistant bullet proof cocoons?
They didn't even address how to land safely with a parachute. That in itself is very dangerous.
cindy mananzala martinez would you wanna have a parachute on board?
Why Airplanes Don't Have Parachutes? Because it is expensive. There you go.
And extra heavy
Each parachute 7 kg × 200
expensive > Lives ok then
That s what bright side just said 2:49
99% of passengers would die on the way out . It’s hard to exit without hitting the wings
Who else thinks passengers should still have parachutes regardless
Interesting Topics it will be more expensive for the airline if many passenger survive
@@odtuhan it would be the opposite (people usually have families /countries/society baking them so airlines don't go killing people off)
I think knowing all of this we should be allowed to bring our own parachute and more needs to be done. They now can destroy a person on an airplane or the whole airplane itself by remote so why are they not using knowledge to save lives? It is messed up! The whole system is messed up.
@@nicolenichols240 - You've clearly never gone skydiving it's a terrible idea
Plane crash is a very very rare thing too...
How about installing parashoot inside the head rest and ejecting every seat one by one in case of emergency.
Money. Simple
Money money money
and you're also talking bout ejector seats all the bags make the plane heavier meaning more fuel is needed and then the bags themselves are so expensive and most people wouldn't even know what to do that's not gonna happen
I always thought about ejecting entire rows, in sequence and each of them with their own parachute. I know, I know... money
It has nothing to do with safety because the pairachuts could be attached to the passengers seat and automatically timed to eject only a few at a time and when its safe enough to do so...done see Every problem solved that easy ,now its all about cost and design...
Ive asked this question for years ...finally im going get a answer
man to be honest I have this question from a long time.
I always thought that having parachute will reduce the fatality rate.
It would
But it‘s too expensive and heavy.
it will definitely. when i was younger I was skydiving and its not hard to learn. And to survive I would just need a minute to tell someone what to do. Not 4 or 5 hours. But yeah its to expensive thats the main reason.
@@Stillstanding1 how would you like to jump off a plane going 800km/h at 10 000m?
@@niconico3907 so maybe idk slow the plane down? wont be hard i guess
Me at 3AM: Imma check this out.
Me here too.
Exactly
This video was sponsored by American Airlines. The safety of the passengers don't matter. All that matters is how much the airline is willing to save.
Do you still wake up at 3am?
hahaa same, watching this 03:02 am
2:46 So the only reason they risk hundreds of lives is that they want to reduce the cost, money wins over lives.
Multiply $7000 by 200 for every plane that a commercial airline owns that a lot of money and it’s not possible
Also planes travel from about 12000 to 30000 feet at cruising speed so it’s useless the air is very thin and you probably will dies before you hit the ground
@@ed1tz468 take your chance to survive
@@ed1tz4681. the parachute won't be used in every flight. 2. The pilot can tell the right altitude for jump.
You know poor airlines exist right?
Thanks for this video -it’s very insightful. I am qualified military parachutists -the feeling and silence in the air (under the canopy) is just amazing.
So basically my life isn't worth it, got it 👍🏾
Any companies in this world doesnt even think bout us . They just know how to maximize profits & minimize loss at any cost
U r one in 8 billion that's cycled through trillions of human beings.
It‘s way too heavy.
lol but true thooo
its because 50% of people that travel will not travel as often which leads to many airlines going bankrupt because of how expense the plane ticket will become... its as simple as that.. ticket prices will raise by at least 100% if they implement this idea.
This is the answer of my question since I was a child.
Thank you,
Mr. Bright Side👍❤️
Having piloted (many) times an aircraft with a brs parachute system, I can tell you that it does provide a decent chance for survival PROVIDED you aren’t in the take-off or landing phase of flight. Unfortunately, I knew a pilot who was practicing take-offs and landings one afternoon and (sadly) they had neither the time nor the altitude to activate the parachute. That said, I wouldn’t hesitate to fly any plane with a brs installed. My wife, in fact, insists on it.
Same reason why most buses don't have seat belts.
But the planes do
That was a cruel joke at the end 😭 My soul would leave my body
I believe my life is worth every money on earth.
Edit. Nobody is gonna give me all the money in the world in exchange for my life. So my life is priceless. I didn't explain it well lol
What if,everybody thinks like this...Our life is worth only with the money we have....And of u r talking about experiences and emotions,that's something that money cannot buy.
Well the government doesn't think like that
fire ninja
The government is what keeps aviation safe, not the airline companies. In fact, it’s the profit-motive that halts aviation safety.
If airline CEO can’t make a profit, then what is worth to them? This is why I believe all industries, aviation or other wise, should be democratically owned by the engineers and workers. Having to depend for innovation on one person is inefficient for creating safe scientific outcomes.
lollypop rogue Not only Money, parachutes are too heavy.
Most people do.
I also once read about a suggested system where not the passengers, but their seats would be equipped with such systems. So in an emergency, a hood would flap over their head for O2 supply and their seat belts would strap them automatically, then the back of the plane would open and all the passengers would slide down the rails where the seats are attached to, one after the other, pretty much mass-dumping them in just a few seconds out of the plane, where then the seats would wait until they are at the perfect deploying height.
TIMESTAMPS:
Parachuting basics 0:52
Why most people wouldn't even get as far as to get ahold of their chutes 3:00
3,000 extra pounds to the flight's weight 4:16
Safe height for skydiving 5:25
How about a whole-plane parachute? 6:28
If I have a chance to get ahold of my chute, I'm still alive, and I want it.
Replace carry-on bags with parachutes: weight problem solved.
If a plane is falling, it will reach lower altitudes safe for jumping.
George Washington one problem: if the cabin is pressurized it will be physically impossible to open the door
there is no reason the govt couldnt make this happen,, they have $ , technology to parachute passenger parts of plane
Keep this in mind (CRUCIAL); 98% of just a small error in the plane; 95% of surviving in a plane crash.
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You must be a pilot.
I’ve had a 1 hr flying lesson in a 69 Cessna. Loved it.
LOL @ boarding a plane with a parachute!! :) Excellent video with narrative and diagrams.
I love this channel. So much to learn. 💕
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Everyone should just wear a wing suit.
@Adnan Ahmad they don't require a parachute... only if you want to land it again at some point :P
@@sekgo1265 so they require a parachute to land, us what you are saying?
@@Julian-pw5mv he is saying that you don't need a parachute to land if you are wearing a wing suit unless you want to survive the landing.
still need a parachute to land
Forget about parachutes! I just want an ejector seat
Ejector seat deploys a parachute
@@danpineda4447 GTAV military pilots don’t have parachutes but a fancy ejection system
Ejector seat means they would have to build a bigass glass on top or bottom of plane
I asked mom this question back in 1989. Its hilarious how much alike we all are.
“You would have even less legroom, if that is possible!”
First class emirates passengers: *laughs*
There are parachutes with rockets. 1, 2, 3, liftoff!
I love these I learn a lot thank you
Experienced jumper that has done several jumps from 15,000 ft. above the Kennedy Space Center in Florida! I absolutely LOVE to jump! It’s a wonderful thrill with an amazing view!!
Even if u carry your own personal parachute, no one will allow you to open the door.
If the cabin is pressurized the door is pressed into its frame and will not open it's physically impossible
exactly
@@PabloGonzalez-hv3td but someone who wants to jump out of a burning plane will still try
maybe rear ramp would be helpful in that case
Like I'm gonna ask
“You can accept the world as it is or change it.” If I want a parachute, I want a parachute. If only people can fight for their safety in this world, the better.
you do realise planes are the safest form of transport right
I flew to a skydive “boogie” and took my skydiving “rig” aka the full skydiving set up; a main canopy, a reserve canopy, the harness and container for the parachutes, on a commercial flight. So actually sometimes there are parachutes on airplanes 😀
thank's you answered the question that i ask myself every times i go on a plane
People would be fighting over them and no one would be saved.
Not if there was one for everyone
@@daniellelawman9724 I'm referring to the mass parachute.
@@daniellelawman9724 then everyone would be fighting over who get to jump out first.
making plane doors for everyone or openable windows
@@airshark2764 creative idea. Nonetheless, that would make the plane very unsafe.
I've got a simple response to the arguments in this video: D.B. Cooper. He jumped out of a 727 in a thunderstorm and probably survived.
Except that he forced the pilots to decrease the altitude, fly at the slowest possible speed almost stalling the aircraft - and we still have no idea if he actually survived the jump.
He survived the jump, but not the Bigfoot encounter.
*probably*
i was having this question and i asked it to 2people..1 among them was a pilot ..i was not satisfied with his unclear answer..but now m happy to find this video answering my question...
Detachable cabin is really great idea... When I got that, i felt proud myself, but when I cross check in youtube, bunch of models i found.
I have asked this same question for many years so thanks so much for your insight. Sending much unconditional love and gratitude! I always thought a plane should be able to land in water and also have wheels which would make more sense when accidents occur. Also if the positive military provided the airplane with survival extensive medical kits and various medical tools that could that could help survivors that could occur in many type of scenarios and food for 2 weeks for everyone that bought a ticket on that airplane including crew and also a very well trained nurse/doctor! Also involving the medical profession with the above mentioned. So whether you land in snow, ice, water, land, jungle, etc. People would have everything they needed to help others and maybe themselves in times of trouble and difficulty. And perhaps like a huge bubblenose or huge airbag at the nose of the airplane for crashing and a way to put out engine fires and have a special energency engine like a backup generator that could override and take over if these things occur and help in the loss of power and engines. And a training program everyone can take in order to know how to operate what is provided in case of emergency before their flight and learn how to operate various things. Or what about Plasma Light ships! But those of the Light know more about what I know for the future. So you have that choice landing on water or land! There is alot of opportunities to make it much better for everyone and start with space between seats. How about bringing all proffesions together in this technology with their ideas! That way everything is covered! Then it is not one person's ideas and a whole array of ideas for the people by the People! Not corporations! And know common law and Univeral Law. Maps and compasses and flashlights, and a protected book on Travel destinations and all about the areas around with important information one will need to know for understanding and knowledge, etc... provided. Or bypass it and rise even higher in thoughts! 👏😲🤓🤔😃🌞🌝🌟❤💖💛💚💙💜
You dont have to jump when in cruising altitude, just wait till its safe to do so.
Me: clicks on video cos it seems interesting
Bright side: the world is a kettle
Not only would parachutes make flight more expensive(and therefore less accessible), but the number of people who die in plane crashes per year is minuscule compared to the number of people who fly or even compared to the number of plane crashes that actually happen. Pilots are trained to do everything in their power to save the plane and its passengers, and they succeed the vast majority of the time. In the rare case that they don’t, it’d be way too late to organize everyone to parachute off of the plane.
They beat me to the giant parachute idea lol D:
Better than NOTHING all I gotta say bout it
As a skydiver I can assure you it is a terrible idea
@@PabloGonzalez-hv3td and as a normal human being. it's Stillwater better than nothing at all. who knows 50% of these passengers knew already how to operate such stuff. so yeah it's better than nothing.
@@JekylViovicente - Experience is largely irrelevant.
It's paradoxical on an airliner in that the failure modes that are stable platforms for 100s of jumpers likely don't justify vacating the aircraft in the first place. And the failure modes that do justify jumping are likely not suitable situations for anyone to jump. And I'm not sure what you propose we do with the disabled, elderly and children.
This is without getting into the nuances of parachuting from airliners on the best of days.
As a bit of irony, a typical sport parachute and aircraft wings are functionally the exact same thing anyways - Airfoils.
Which is why aircraft do not fall like rocks in the event of complete engine failure.
If the aircraft is structurally sound and there is directional control you're typically better off staying in the aircraft.
People can learn such things in one day or two to save their lives lol
@Asaan Hasdde I'm a trained skydiver and I'm telling you that's a useless idea.
Nice cartoon graphics you use to support your explanations 😂
I love them 😂
Always wanted to know this 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
How many videos do yo u upload a day? Aren’t you feeling weary
Something is better than nothing. Going with the parachute anyway
My first guess was: "parachutes are freaking Heavy". Finally I saw my answer in the video
I never see a parachute be for in my Life and the help u come down
Some planes use parachutes to slow down when landing
I always had this question since childhood... Finally got it cleared.. Thanks!
Parachute each passenger
Bright side - useless
Parachute on plane
Bright side - impossible
Me - we're all gonna die
I liked the joke at the end. As a former skydiver from WA State, it would have played better for me by carrying a parachute and introducing myself as D.B. Cooper. LOL
Even if it saves one person, it's enough to go for it. And im pretty sure it would be more!!!
I bet there has been hundreds of times more people saved when they have not jumped and the plane has safely landed.
@@RoyalMela same with the life vests when u land on water, but they still warn you about this in the safety instructions presented by the flight attendants.
The pressure on the airplane door would be so strong up there and so it’s hard to open an airplane’s door at a high altitude,thats also another reason.
A falling airplane will reach lower altitudes safe for jumping.
Try another argument.
@@georgewashington2893 Did you even know how parachute work? It's a *yes* that you can't open a door from high altitude in a fast failing plane. If you jump at low altitude it's almost the same as free fall from more than 500 feet. You need a bit higher altitude so the parachute have enough time to open and work properly, otherwise you will just hit the earth at around 50 mph.
@@kevin-7091 Open the door when the plane is low enough and jump out before the plane gets too low.
Try again.
@@georgewashington2893 Did you even fcking know that the arguments right here is about parachuting and not simply jump?
Btw crashed plane always ended with an explosion, if you think you can jump far enough to avoid the explosion, good luck!
@@kevin-7091 Does stupidity run in your family?
I can see in the future the actual seats been eject seats and when in sky diving it transforms into an eject seat.
About the detachable cabin... I too thought about it when I first read about aircrafts in the encyclopedia
Detachable cabin is a plane without wings. Having a plane with wings is always better.
Hmm it'll be cool if they could add the huge plane parachute to commercial planes, that sounds safe
EDIT: Nevermind it's already mentioned
Agreed with that idea! Hope it executed by manufacturer!!!!
Who's about to go sky diving?
Dalt are you?
@@BRIGHTSIDEOFFICIAL Yes I have gone just recently. But I don't go too high up. Btw love your videos so much!
How high did you go?
You are so lucky..😣
This makes me feel so much better about my interest in being a ship captain
Having a giant parachute for the plane makes sense
Done already but from 1100 feet's only 😅... interesting thing is that initially j was also thinking that the plane should have a parachute for cabin only...and at the end you explained it...! 👍
Even though parachutes could save someone's life
My life?
Prob not in a crash situation
I'm relating it with Iphone's battery life problem😵😁
I have always thought about this as well.
Even military cargo aircraft only carry enough parachutes for the flight crew, only to be used if the plane is shot down in combat. No additional chutes are carried for passengers.
For commercial airlines, assuming all the passengers were trained in parachuting, most airline crashes occur in take off or landing, where parachutes are worthless. Once in flight, if the aircraft has a catastrophic failure, you won't have time to bail out. If the aircraft is flyable enough to stay airborne, there is no need to bail out.
A First Class seat would be worth the fare, if it were an ejection seat.
Simply put, without experience and the knowledge, you're more likely to mess up
Really?? What knowledge do u have?? I am aeronautical engineer!! Whatever he said is true!! Not only that there are many reasons a plane cant afford!!! A plane shouldnt be heavy than the max amount it can have!! A plane can be so heavy while taking off!! But not while landing!! Ever heard of fuel dumping?? If they provide a chute or packup the whole plane!! Its still wont stop the plane from crashing!! Bcauz of its landing weight!! So of they have chute everytime they got dump thousands of pounds fuel!! In air!! And u knw no plane carries exact amount of fuel!! They always carry extra just to save u from climatical crasg
MIDDLE FINGER - You sent me on a roller coaster of emotion! Your words were verbose yet abiding! Don’t ever change my child!
So let's just die cause I'd hate to MESS up
A chance to live or no chance to live is the question
Hi love it thanks for sharing.
O Yas!😎 The last option was fantastic👍
When I was a kid I thought that the lifejackets were parachute
lol
Why not just make the plan seat a parachute itself, that way you can detach it when needed 🙄
Wow. Never thought of that!
Weight is less of an issue both for an airframe or the recovery system.
Thank you for adding to my fear of flights
If you are reading this have a amazing
Yeah anyway passengers would be happy getting parachutes
And pay double price also i guess ?
@@MrElecTrO92 yeah
As a skydiver I can assure you that's a terrible idea
Superb explanation.. with animation 😄😃😀😊 🌸🌼🌻🌹🌷🌴🌿🌺
Anyways, Air force one movie did this trick, their passengers were quite serious about learning sky diving in the middle of the air
Its expensive! Thats why!
You dont have to watch a 10 minute video for just one simple answer!
Feel bad if guy was in the toilet at the end and detached bye bye
#1 or #2?
A parachute for slowing down after landing seems like a good idea. The space shuttle used one and lots of accidents are runway overruns.
Well, then add few hours after every flight to replace the parachute with a new one.
@@RoyalMela meh not usually they’re usually a modular box. Russian planes like su25 have them and they can switch it out in a couple of minutes. Looking back on my comment though I’m not sure what I was thinking I don’t think most planes need them lol.
Excellent!
There are already concepts of a cabin that detaches from to plane with parachutes and air cushions, what are people waiting for?
That wasn't a realistic concept more of an artist's conception
TtMAD CcMAD That’s artist fantasy, not realism.
So sacrifice the pilots? The only people who can bring a plane down?
Cirrus 😎😎😎😜😜
The panic thing isn't an argument to make your case better. I mean, if people WOULD have a parachute, most people would be a lot more calm than when they know there's no way of surviving what's going on.
I seen a design which parachute whole cabin as a capsule ejected from plane mainframe. It looks more practical yet no company give a F to it
1 reason
It's too expensive and it takes training to actually know how to use a parachute and you'd suffocate
You mean PROBABLY suffocate.
Okay what's the alternative?The alternative is certainly die.
Which would you prefer as a rational living being?
9:06 "In this case the parachute would only save the passenger cabin." What other cabin needs saving?!
*sad pilot noises*
The little cabin on the mountain where the plane is gonna hit. My Uncle Grandpa and Aunt Teefa live there.
Pilots. The only people who can land a plane even if there is a problem with a plane.
Now I know what I should take on my hand carry next time I fly
theres another idea they didnt mention - have an ejector system & parachute for each row of seats like they do on fighter aircraft - the parachute can be stored inside the seat in place of the seat stuffing material - that idea is much easier to implement than trying to save the whole fuselage in one piece - IIRC there was a women that survived a plane crash simply because the seat she was strapped into cushioned her fall into a jungle
*Because we are one of 30 Million*
Who cares about money you pay life if you don’t give people parachutes
Man people are freaking out over not having a parachute when it's an absolutely terrible idea. Plane crashes are so extremely rare.
Chances of surving by just staying in the plane - 0%
Chances of surving by parachute - 1%
Chances of bracing for impact -100