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Old Jun 2, 2009 | 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by stevenebm
isnt there anyway of havin parachutes on planes or is it impossible to jump from one.i know id like the option of trying if i knew it were going down.
no mate. commercial airlines don't carry parachutes for many specific reason. Very few people are trained in how to use one. Believe it or not a parachute is much harder to work than you would expect

It can come between life and death when it comes to working one correctly and chances are civilians on a comercial n airline are safer using the inflatable slide (if they crash in water) or bracing themselves for impact than jumping off a moving plane thousands of feet above the ground to .

Planes mostly crash on landing and takeoff, When planes do crash in flight at full altitude it's almost always a cataclysmic failure such as an explosion which, again, makes parachutes useless. also commercial jets fly too high to parachute out of, plus the cabin's are pressurised.You would not be conscious to deploy your chute at that altitude regardless of the chance for the wind-shear to damage you on disembarkation,
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