"Steven Shelikoff" wrote in message
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On 07 Jul 2004 22:03:35 GMT, (Gould 0738) wrote:
According to NTSB statistics, 100% of passengers killed in commercial
airline
crashes were not wearing parachutes.
I guess we should be looking into that....
Parachutes don't improve your safety on a commercial flight.
They can be useful, however, when leaping out of a plane.
More people will survive falling off a boat without a PFD than will
survive
falling out of an airplane without a parachute.
I'd think that 100% of the people who fall out of an airplane without a
parachute will die. I'm sure there are plenty of people who fall off a
boat without a PFD who survive.
Steve
Only American flyer to get a German bravery medal in WW2 jumped out of the
bomber without a chute. Tailgunner, and they could not wear a chute in the
cramped confines. Plane was shot up and going to crash, and fire is going
to get the gunner before the crash. Figured going quick was better and
jumped out. Could not get to his chute. Hit a sloping barn roof covered
with snow and into a snow bank. They were first going to shoot him as a spy
as no chute was found. They checked the plane and found his hat and the
chute. Awarded him a medal, but still kept him in a POW camp. So not all
those to leave airplanes without a chute die on impact. But probably in
excess of 30-50 million people trips on a boat a year, and you are going to
save 150 people from Darwinism? Seems like an ill conceived law.
Bill