If a plane can stay level enough for long enough to get people into parachute gear and out the door, chances are good that the pilots can land that plane, which significantly decreases the chances of injury to the passengers.
That’s my thought - there would be very few instances where a parachute for the passengers would potentially be useful. Either there would be no time or opportunity to strap on a parachute and bail from the plane, or they would be better off staying in the plane for some sort of emergency landing.
Something like United Airlines Flight 232 (loss of hydraulic pressure resulting in no control surfaces) is one of the few exceptions I can think of where having a parachute might be useful. In that case the pilots had enough control of the plane that the passengers would have had an opportunity to bail, and that would have been preferable to trying to ride out a landing.
If a plane can stay level enough for long enough to get people into parachute gear and out the door, chances are good that the pilots can land that plane, which significantly decreases the chances of injury to the passengers.
That’s my thought - there would be very few instances where a parachute for the passengers would potentially be useful. Either there would be no time or opportunity to strap on a parachute and bail from the plane, or they would be better off staying in the plane for some sort of emergency landing.
Something like United Airlines Flight 232 (loss of hydraulic pressure resulting in no control surfaces) is one of the few exceptions I can think of where having a parachute might be useful. In that case the pilots had enough control of the plane that the passengers would have had an opportunity to bail, and that would have been preferable to trying to ride out a landing.