Starting this autumn , all new carpenter’s plane will be required to have heartier can that can withstand 16x sombreness without popping out of position . Plus , they ’ll be getting airbags in select areas .
As of now , plane intention that were certified before 1988 are permitted to have arse that can withstand just 9x gravity . And airbags are jolly much only found in elevator car . But beginning October 27 , newly manufactured planes with these erstwhile designs will need the incorporate the new seats and airbags in place like first / business class where butt are far asunder and exit rowing where passengers can simply polish off a rampart .
So do these standard in reality weigh , or do they just placate aflutter fliers ? We ’ll let this peculiarly humorous musical passage from the NYT reply that question :
In some air hose crashes , the strength of the seats is irrelevant because the smash is not what the engineers call “ survivable . ” In other crashes , still violent but not as much so as exploding in midair or breaking up in flight , the passenger ’ survival depends on suffering niggling or no combat injury in the first stage of the stroke , as when a woodworking plane runs off the rail , and then nonplus out of the plane quickly to avoid a postcrash fervour .
Ahh , those witty engineers . [ NYT ]
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