Flying safety

In regards to ashtrays in seats, I should imagine its because of the varying airlines banning smoking on flights at different times over the years.
Middle East, China and some European countries are generally big smokers so the airlines that operate in those countries will be slower to change their seating...if they ever do. No point refitting all those seats if you're going to get a new plane anyway.
Parachutes is a sure way to guarantee 100% fatalities if pitching out over water...tangled lines....suffocation and drowning....did you pay for that upgrade sir?

I'm all for jet packs, silo roofs, crash helmets and thermal underwear on flights.
 
Engines have to be rebuilt/replaced after a certain amount of hours, air frames have recommended amount of cycles (takeoff/landing), commercial aeroplanes are maintained to a very high standard, especially ones used for international travel.
 
Doesn't bother me, Planes are kept to a tight maintenance schedule and if anything is wrong with them they simply ground the flight till it's resolved.

Several times we've been delayed due to the plane needing urgent work whether it being over 15 years old or that years model.
 
I watched all the air crash investigator series....

you fly... you die...

if the the screw is not 0.1mm too short either the pilot will screw up, the ground crew did something wrong..

you know the life jacket is only to make your corpse float after the plane hits the water at 500mph...
 
groen said:
"land" in water
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Yes. It is actually quite possible, and pilots do train for it. Of course success of such things rely on the status of the aircraft and skill of the pilots.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a6eI2iaZ0KA&desktop_uri=/watch?v=a6eI2iaZ0KA

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7832439.stm

Parachutes, ejection seats, or any such devices would as others have said greatly increase the probability of fatalities in any emergency. And then you have the cost and practicality implications of such systems. That life jacket really is the most useful thing you can have under your seat.

In any situation where it would be even slightly possible to have people safely jump out of an aircraft, would be a situation where it'd be much safer to simply land the aircraft. In any situation where you couldn't land, such as catastrophic structural failure or loss of control, you'd be highly unlikely to have time to to put on a parachute. And even if you did, the g-forces would be such that you'd be unable to move to a door etc. anyway.

After 15 years in the RAF, and still being in the (military) aviation industry, trust me when I say you've nothing to worry about. Fly on reputable airlines, and all will be fine. You're far more likely to die in a car crash on your way to the airport.
 
It's rare that I really feel the need to say so strongly that I actually bother typing it but shut up groen.
 
Freefaller said:
Having jumped out of over 20 different type of flying machines - jumping out of a plane at a speed enough to maintain altitude, with a lot of skill - if the plane is damaged or not operable, holding a steady course and altitude on the cusp of a stall would be dangerous and nigh on impossible (certainly to get everyone off the plane in time), furthermore, the chance of hitting the tail is massive, and the chance of getting sucked into the engine is even bigger.

Having jumped out of a jet plane, there is a maximum speed that's needed as mentioned to stop you spinning out of control as you jump, but also to minimise the impact of hitting 100knots of winds, but also to keep the plane stable and at height, and even then there's a technique to jumping out.

It sounds good in your head, but in theory it's not practicable at all.
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Exactly. They need to give you wingsuits.



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Please tell me more about those reliable new planes would it be a Dreamliner or an A380 by any chance?

Edit: I will accept a working way of bailing out a couple of hundred people from a crashing plane as a substitute.
 
Old plane has flown 100,000 hours without crashing

New plane has flown 1,000 hours without crashing

Assume 0.5% chance of crashing for the new plane and 1% for the old plane.

Statistically, even with doubling the risk the old plane is still much more likely to get you to the end of your 4 hour flight alive...
 
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