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Plane Safety device

 A seperate compartment for the passengers
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When a passenger airliner goes down why can't the passengers be in a separate self contained compartment with bulkheads like a sub or a ship. When the plane goes down there are small charges that separate this compartment from the rest of the plane. This would act as a pod that would include the cabin of course and would have big parachutes to come out when it detaches from the rest of the plane so people could take the slow way down. This could also contain the black box so they wouldn't get lost like at 9/11...
—colpro, Aug 11 2008

(Similar) Prior art Commercial_20airlin...0parachute_20system
Some discussion on ideas like this (and links) [neutrinos_shadow, Aug 11 2008]

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       most plane crashes happen during normal takeoffs and landings.
—WcW, Aug 11 2008
   

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