Can airline safety be improved?
You’re figures are wrong, the numbers for people that die in airline crashes and car crashes are based upon the percentage of those that die compared to the total number of people that fly or drive. Read the statistics below, the lifetime odds of dying in a plane crash are over 5000-1, the lifetime odds of dying in a car crash are 237-1 and this doesn’t include trucks or motorcycles. And as far as your foam idea, not only would it not protect you in an impact from a falling aircraft, but the foam would have to be so thick to even remotely have a chance ot protecting you, that there wouldn’t room left for passengers. Your parachute idea may have some merit, but I don’t know how you can jump from an airplane hurtling wildly to the ground and I think a controlled break-up is not possible. The fact is, your odds of dying in a plane crash is so small, and airline safety is an improving and constantly evolving process that I think air travel safe enough already. I’ve also supplied a link to
