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Answer by abelenky for Why don't big commercial planes have full aircraft...

Any time the question is "why don't we have...", the answer is almost certainly in the trade-off between weight, maintenance cost, fuel cost, & utility. If it weighs a lot, needs maintenance, burns...

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Answer by Peter Kämpf for Why don't big commercial planes have full aircraft...

The reason for not using full aircraft parachutes can be stitched together by looking at the many related questions. Let me do this for you:Parachutes will only help when something essential fails at...

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Why don't big commercial planes have full aircraft parachutes?

On smaller aircraft, like some Cirruses for example, they have parachutes attached to the body of the aircraft that can help the plane get to the ground safely in an emergency. I'm wondering why...

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