Hardly. Imagine to exit a burning or free falling plane at around 800 km/h. How likely is it for people to collide with the plane, how likely is it they will be able to strap it on at all? And how long does it take to push out 200 or so travellers?
There's a lot more to parachuting than jumping out of an aeroplane. Like others have said: altitude is very important. Also. It takes a minute to strap on a parachute, so unless we're all wearing them before we board it's a non-starter - and think of the space they'd take up in already cramped-to-death seating. Then there's the chaos trying to get everyone out of the door in order to jump - even if you were at the right altitude. Then there's the absolute carnage of having 150 people 'landing' on power lines, or houses, or busy motorways.
I don't think so? I'm not an expert or anything, but there are a couple of problems I'm thinking of - like the fact that parachutes (as they are designed now) can't be deployed below a certain altitude, they need to catch enough air and have enough velocity to open fully and that takes a bit, longer than fall from like a few hundred feet, so anything happening at or around takeoff or landing would make parachutes useless, then if you're at altitude, there could be oxygen problems and you've got people with all kinds of potential health issues leaping into the clouds...then there are practical matters like training the average person to use it and explaining stuff like the above to Mennonites on their way back home...I mean sure give everybody one if you want and let them try I guess? But I feel like the success rate would be depressingly low
Not necessarily, because people might not have the time to all be able to parachute out, plus it would take a while to get to a safe altitude for people to be able to jump. This link explains in a little more detail, for the curious: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2482/why-dont-pilots-parachute-from-small-planes-that-are-in-distress
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