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RE: Can we have safer commercial air travel if parachutes are present?

in #stemng6 years ago

It may not be too feasible to include individual parachutes on a commercial airline.
But think of this; the entire airplane can have a single super large parachute that would be rocket-propelled and can be deployed in seconds if anything happens.
It's been used in smaller planes before now; but maybe it can also be used in bigger airplanes.

I saw a vid on that

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Yes, this works for small planes. The Ukrainian engineer that I mentioned is looking into how to deploy such a parachute for big commercial aeroplanes.