Wouldn't it be safer if all commercial planes had ejection seats like fighter jets?
just wondering…why don’t all planes have them?
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1) Cost. Ejection seats are expensive.
2) Not all planes have removable tops.
3) It takes training to be able to use an ejection seat effectively.
4) Safety. The G-forces exerted by ejection seats would hurt or kill infirm, small, or weak people.
Yes, but that would mean everyone would need parachutes too, and if someone hits the wrong button…
Structural integrity goes “out the window”. Pun intended.
@OwlofHappiness the parachute would be automatically deployed and attached to the seat
The lawyers and engineers must have determined that it’s cheaper to have everyone die occasionally then the expense of retrofitting planes etc.
Just enjoy that last bag of peanuts bitch.
@talljasperman, I don’t think that kind of technology exists yet. The g-forces would still be the same.
Also, perhaps because plane travel is just not dangerous enough to merit ejection seats. You’re more likely to be killed driving to the airport than on the plane itself.
Ejection seats are also notorious for actually injuring the pilot upon exit of the plane. Vertebrae fractures, broken ankles, shattered collarbones are often career ending injuries for pilots who do use the ejection seats on the aircraft. There have actually been a couple pilots killed by their ejection seat.
@dverhey how about a floating rescue from an air ship….attached to a very strong net?
@talljasperman Well that’s a totally different question, isn’t it?
If I’m going to die, I don’t think a plane crash would be that bad of a way to go.
@dverhey any way to go would be bad for me
Imagine the result of 200 or 300 or more people simultaneously ejecting. Picture tangled shroud lines, mid-air collisions among ejector seats, not to mention falling legs and arms of the elderly, infants, and the disabled. It would eliminate overhead bins in cabins or they would be an obstacle to safe ejection.
I just don’t see it happening, as least I hope not!
@Dr_Lawrence how about one big one…for all the passengers run by the trained crew? and maybe they can put the bins under the seats?
Yes, I’d love to be able to the jerk next to me propelled into the ceiling and go splat. That’ll serve him for thinking just because I’m small and scrawny that I don’t need my pre arranged aisle seat, armrest and full scrap of ass cushioning.
@Neizvestnaya They should improve the comfort level of the airplanes…I have trouble on greyhound buses…either I am too tall or they don’t give enough leg room… and its hard to sleep in them
In the 70’s they stripped the paint from planes so they could put on thinner coats to save fuel.
The added fuel cost over the life of the plane would be greater than the savings that they pay if you die.
@johnpowell what about just one ejection seat?... for the pilot…pilots don’t come cheap…even though they may be paid cheap
I don’t want to be trained on how to use the ejecting seat just to fly to my next destination, and I’m not signing any waver.
@all I see a future when something gets invented to safely land a plane in distress from whatever form it takes
@Deja_vu the crew will be the ones trained..but space missions have training for civilians…maybe the newer low cost space tourism companies will have ejection seats?
@talljasperman
LOL. That would look really good for the Airline:
Today every passenger on US Airways Flight 1549 died after plunging into the frigid waters of the Hudson River in NY. But fortunately the pilot Chesley Burnett “Sully” Sullenberger III lived…in other news
@talljasperman :: That plane that landed in the Hudson a few years ago. Totally different outcome if Sully could have bailed at the first sign of trouble.
I think it would be better if they just handed out morphine during turbulence.
Nobody would care if they were about to crash…whee! lol
And what about international flights like the 13 hours I spent over the Pacific on my way to asia last spring. I’d rather go down with the plane than be ejected into the ocean. Morphine is the answer to panic.
Yeah, and I can just hear the takeoff announcement: Please fasten your seat belts and be sure the switch on your ejection seat is in the OFF position.
@Austinlad
Yes, and then….” your Morphine pouch will drop automatically, in the event we encounter turbulence, please administer your own dose before assisting others.”
wouldn’t the plane need to be low enough so the plane wouldn’t explode from the breach in the fuselage. There’s not much air that high up or everyone would have to be suited up in air suits and masks?~reminds me of the Black Sabath album cover “never say die”~
Yeah, & then we can laugh at all those folks bent, twisted & wrapped around trees. Another blessing would be that we could use them for kinda living decorations at christmas time. Deck the boughs with mangled bodies fa la la la la la la la la!! XD
How about one giant seat and parachute for the whole plane?
Probably not. Would make a funny cartoon, though…
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