Why dont they make parachutes for air planes?
1. Speed – the high speeds at which airliners travel would be problematic for parachutes, as it would require at least two stages of parachute deployment (high speed “drag chute” to slow the aircraft down and then a low speed chute to actually control the fall/descent of the aircraft) 2. Weight and size – the heavy weight and large dimensions of airliners would require enormous parachutes which would be a real engineering challenge to get to work with any level of high reliability. Plus, the parachute systems themselves would add enormous weight which would decrease the payload of the aircraft for fuel, passengers, and baggage. But at the end of the day the real reason why parachutes aren’t used is because the extraordinarily low risk of commercial airline travel doesn’t justify the use of heavy, expensive, and complex accident mitigation measures. Accidents almost never happen in commercial aviation, and accidents that could be successfully prevented or mitigated by parachutes are eve
