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My FAQ for the FAA

My FAQ for the FAA

by Adam on June 28, 2013 at 12:00 am
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  1. RAAAH
    RAAAH
    June 28, 2013, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    Well you do get a life west. Not that it would do you any good in a crash, but your corpse will be easy pickings on open sea. You know the costs of salvage really hurt the economy.

  2. foundationist
    foundationist
    June 28, 2013, 5:25 am | # | Reply

    But there are plenty of cases where one lucky dude got out because he followed all the security instructions like…. you know like that one guy…. err…

  3. MeNotSilly
    MeNotSilly
    June 28, 2013, 6:02 am | # | Reply

    This is why I sit at the back of the plane. Lots of crumple zone between me and the mountain…

  4. ASP
    ASP
    June 28, 2013, 8:12 am | # | Reply

    I took two plane rides yesterday. This is relevant to me.

  5. Mortal Anonymous
    Mortal Anonymous
    June 28, 2013, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    Agreed. Planes: of all the transportation modes, we have to fight the hardest to get on them, and they have the least safety features. It’s like a death trap that also sucks money from your wallet (insert humorous related image, as I cannot include it here).

    The seats function as floatation devices, but we have nothing for the LAND over which most flights still fly? C’mon, airlines…

    • mac
      mac
      June 28, 2013, 3:03 pm | # | Reply

      Planes are ridiculously safe, but when something *does* go wrong, you’re pretty much screwed due to the energy involved. If they made them safer, they’d cost more to fly (more weight = more fuel costs). Can’t win.

      • Mortal Anonymous
        Mortal Anonymous
        June 28, 2013, 11:52 pm | # | Reply

        I was exaggerating and complaining about average perceived generalization for attempted comedic effect. The rant was meant to be ironic. Guess I failed.

    • Izzie
      Izzie
      January 26, 2014, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

      DUDE. More people die in car crashes.

      • VeryPeeved
        VeryPeeved
        August 21, 2017, 5:04 pm | # | Reply

        yeah, because more people drive cars!

        • RIK
          RIK
          September 24, 2018, 3:31 am | # | Reply

          Nope.

          Even when you break it down to to deaths per passenger miles, planes win by a factor of 100:

          https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/14/the-safest-and-deadliest-ways-to-travel/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c1be89742549

  6. Grawl
    Grawl
    June 28, 2013, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

    well, what would you do with a parachute? are you trained in the usage? how would disembarkment work, everybody would try to leave the plane at the same time, while it’s tumbling and shaking.
    actually it would be better to just issue everybody who boards a plane a gun, so that you can end your life on your own terms.

    • Bob in Nashville
      Bob in Nashville
      June 29, 2013, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

      Long as we’re putting together hypotheticals, perhaps mass ejection seating. If the plane is going down to crash, then once it get’s below a certain altitude it ejects all passengers in masse.

      Imagine the people dangling from trees and church steeples.

      • RIK
        RIK
        June 30, 2013, 2:13 pm | # | Reply

        Sure, nothing makes a plane safer than cutting lots of holes into the fuselage and then stuffing it with explosives!

        On the upside, it would
        a) make a brilliant fireworks display and
        b) provide plenty of youtube videos as all the people who are not wearing their seatbelts are tossed about the cabin.

  7. LanceThruster
    LanceThruster
    June 28, 2013, 1:59 pm | # | Reply

    And I’m told that the strategy of jumping up just prior to impact has no survival value (elevators either).

    They’ll see. I’ll show them!

  8. blacklisted and Boycotted
    blacklisted and Boycotted
    June 28, 2013, 2:00 pm | # | Reply

    But to be fair, they are supposed to be the safest form of transportation.

  9. Someone
    Someone
    June 28, 2013, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

    The fun thing is, one of the reasons they do not include parachutes for everyone on board is because that will make the plane much heavier and requires much more fuel to fly, thus more expensive.
    Another reason is simply because most people don’t know how to use parachutes and 400 people in the sky figuring that out is not a pretty sight(ramming into each other can cause much more serious injuries like amputating and beheading each other with high speed collisions, which occasionally happens to experienced sky divers)

  10. KevinW42
    KevinW42
    June 28, 2013, 10:20 pm | # | Reply

    On some small aircraft, the entire plane gets a parachute.

    • Mahnarch
      Mahnarch
      June 29, 2013, 4:19 pm | # | Reply

      I was just recently checking out an SR-22 that a transient pilot had at tie-down. It’s a pretty sleek machine.

    • Rena
      Rena
      June 29, 2013, 4:56 pm | # | Reply

      I thought those were usually called hot air balloons. 😉

  11. Shannon Love
    Shannon Love
    June 29, 2013, 7:42 am | # | Reply

    Actually, the major practical reason you don’t get a parachute on a modern jetliner is that you can’t easily parachute out of anything fly over IIRC 180mph. Over that speed, jumping out of a plane is like jumping three stories into water At over IIRC 300mph, it’s potentially lethal. Modern jets travel at 600+mph. That’s why the ejection seat was invented. It’s also why modern military transports have the a ramp in the back so the soldiers can exit in the plane’s slipstream.

    Not to mention the fun of getting 300 passengers rigged up in chutes, lined up and pushed out tiny little one person wide exits all before plane bit dirt. I mean, Southwest could do it but I don’t think anyone else would.

    Throwing 300 untrained parachutist out of plane going several hundred miles an hour would result in a diffused trail of bodies leading to the crash sight.

  12. Izzie
    Izzie
    June 29, 2013, 11:40 am | # | Reply

    Hey Adam, do you draw with yer hands ‘nd fill in the bugs ‘nd stuff with your computer?

  13. Michael@voxboxcomics.com
    Michael@voxboxcomics.com
    June 29, 2013, 5:22 pm | # | Reply

    My daughter ran up t me and shouted “this plane is DOOOMD!”

    • Adam
      Adam
      June 30, 2013, 7:33 pm | # | Reply

      Ha-ha! Love it!

  14. jynksie
    jynksie
    July 3, 2013, 11:04 am | # | Reply

    …and this is WHY I hate to fly! [shudders]

    • Mahnarch
      Mahnarch
      July 4, 2013, 10:56 pm | # | Reply

      Bah! Just jump out when you’re 5ft off the ground! …you’ll be fine. 😀

  15. RabidBadger1632
    RabidBadger1632
    November 17, 2013, 8:33 am | # | Reply

    Then again, if you jumped out of the plane, you’d probably instantly freeze to death.

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