Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Aircraft safety: Should planes have
parachutes?
About one-tenth of small aircraft is
equipped with a parachute that reduces the descending speed to just slow enough
to land safely when it’s falling out of control.
That sounds like a rational idea, doesn’t
it? Then why the rest of the small aircraft don’t have such a safety mechanism?
What about large commercial airliners that carry hundreds of passengers?
There seems to be economical justification
or motivation needed for aircraft manufactures, airlines or even governments to
make such a costly and radical move because it requires huge, bulky and costly parachutes
to work with such huge aircraft as well as large scale redesigning and
manufacturing of the aircraft.
Enjoy reading and learning about this
could-be-lifesaving safety device.
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