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.
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.