Why hasn’t anybody come up with this idea before?
If you’re not a great flier and even the slightest tickle of turbulence during a flight makes you void your bowels and start desperately screaming your Hail Marys, then this is for you.
Inventor Vladimir Tatarenko has come up with a stroke of genius that could save hundreds of lives in the event of a mid-air disaster.
It basically involved a detachable cabin which could split from the wings, engines and cockpit if there was a serious problem with the aircraft at 30,000ft.
The compartment with the passengers would split from the rest of the plane and float down to earth with huge parachutes, hopefully saving everyone inside.
Tatarenko, who spent three years working on the design, would attach buoyancy aids in case of a landing in water.
‘Surviving in a plane crash is possible,’ he told Live Leak. ‘While aircraft engineers all over the world are trying to make planes safer, they can do nothing about the human factor.
‘The existing technology of using of Kevlar and carbon composites for fuselage, wings, flaps, spoilers, ailerons, tail will be used during the design,’ Tatarenko said on the video.
‘It allows to partly compensate the weight of parachute system.’
Brilliant idea. We’re not getting on another flight until they strap parachutes to the thing.
