Why aeroplanes have life belts and not parachutes?

how many people have been saved by life belts?|||Yes I see your point but really if a plane is going down how many people would be able to get a parachute on and know how to use it before jumping out..and how would they get them out of the plane in a safe manner, as soon as the hatch was opened it would suck everything out. I think if a plane is going down it's going down and if your meant to live you will survive. I think the odds of people being able to parachute out would be slim to none and if any managed to get away from the plane safely without getting sucked into the jets they would not have sufficient oxygen at high altitude to sustain themselves and would pass out, not pull the cord and die anyways.|||Planes that go down usually crash when taking off or landing, not when they are just flying, which is why seat belts make sense while parachutes would take up a lot of room without helping that much.





Usually all are lost in any plane crash, but I'd bet that in any crash you heard about where people lived, the survivors were helped by their seat belts.|||It's safer (and there's far less liability) to bring people down inside the plane than it would be to open up the hatch %26amp; have them jump out.





Besides, I think most commercial planes don't get into "we're sure we're going to crash" scenarios when they're at an altitude where jumping out would even be a safe option... most of the crashes seem to happen around take-offs %26amp; landings. Accidents in midair typically leave the plane intact enough to TRY to land safely ... or they're so catastrophic that parachutes wouldn't have helped 'em at all!|||IF there were time to drag them out, put them on correctly, line up, and assuming EVERYONE would actually JUMP when their turn came, this would be a good idea, but it doesn't happen that way. Often passengers are dead 10 seconds (or so) after they realize something's wrong|||When a plane comes down, the passengers have a better chance for survival if they are strapped to their seats.





If a plane is in trouble and conditions make it even possible to exit the plane in a parachute, that means that the pilot has the plane under resonable control. In other words, the plane may be coming down, but it is still flying. You would not be able to stand up, get into a parachute, make your way to an exit and then, jump out, if the plane were tumbling, or even falling straight down, to the ground.





A crash landing is still, potentially survivable. The plane stops, you scramble to the exit and go down the slide. If the plane goes down in water, you really DO appreciate that floatation device.|||There are few times they would be useful. You can carry one on if you want.