Putting airbangs in airplanes?
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Because any accident at 30,000-ft. wouldn’t be safe without, increasing standards to improve the safety of the cabin are prompting airlines to include airbags.
With tougher safety standards for airplane cabins looming on the horizon, the aviation industry is turning to a tried-and-true technology from the family car: air bags. Built into specially equipped seatbelts, these air bags explode outward in the event of a sudden impact, cushioning passengers from smacking their heads or torsos against seat dividers, bulkheads, galleys, lavatories and other potentially hazardous obstructions. [...]
The impetus for air bags comes from research that determined that in many airline crashes, the actual impact was survivable.
Why am I not surprised. Toss an airbag into any safety mix and everyone is happy. I mean, if something like the crotch airbag or motorcycle jacket airbag can be developed, why not 30,000-ft. airbags?
“Built into specially equipped seatbelts”? What if you put on your seatbelt all twisted up? That wouldn’t be good.
What if the plane crash at 250 miles/h ?
If a plane crash, it will be more likely at this minimum speed.
These could be useful for non-total-destruction accidents. Going off the runway, stuff like that. But if you drop like a rock from 30k+ feet? Better be a damn good airbag.
Like the comedian side, “How far can one engine take us? All the way to the crash site. We’ll even beat the ambulances…”
(…said…)
Actually there is an easier way to up the survivability of crashes. That is turn the seats around facing backwards. This is already a requirement on military transports. Only problem is passengers don’t like it much, of course last time I checked passengers also don’t like severe injuries either
As far as most air crashes being surviveable, this is true. I took several classes concerning air crash analysis as part of my bachlor degree. 85% of all crashes are surviveable. 80% of those who die due to impact in surviveable crash are made up of the crew(pilots) and first class passengers (there is justice in the world). Nearly 90% of all the deaths in this type of crash are from smoke inhallation. So in other words that lovely airbag is going to help you survive a near instant death just so that can have a much slower more agonizing death by suffocating then burning to death.