Posted by mkirsch on July 18, 2014 at 05:42:14 from (65.199.189.6):
In Reply to: Jet shot down posted by gtractorfan on July 17, 2014 at 13:13:18:
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Seriously?
Passenger airliners are flying fuel tanks with people inside. Relatively speaking they have the structural integrity of a beer can if that beer can was scaled up to airplane size.
You hit something like that with a missile: BOOM, fireball, pieces everywhere. There was no dramatic several-minute-long descent to the ground like you see in the movies. Parachutes would simply provide more combustible material for the fires. Ripstop nylon burns real good.
Could you imagine 300 untrained people in a panic trying to bail out at 30,000 feet?
Well, I guess mandatory parachutes would reduce deaths in airline crashes... Nobody could afford to fly, so the planes would be empty when they crashed!
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