Source – https://www.express.co.uk/ By ZOIE O’BRIEN
ENGINEERS have designed passenger planes with a detachable cabin, claiming it could save the life of everyone onboard if the aircraft gets into trouble.
The radical plans have been revealed in a video which shows the cabin being released from the aircraft and floating down to the ground on huge parachutes.
On landing, inflatables protrude from the bottom so the passengers can land smoothly on either earth or water.
Tatarenko is the mastermind behind the design and has been working on this project for the past three years.
According to the designer the plane offers the chance to save all onboard by releasing the entire thing from the engine.
ladimir Tatarenko, aviation engineer, said: “Surviving in a plane crash is possible.
“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.
”It allows to partly compensate the weight of parachute system.
In the design, passenger’s luggage is stowed under the cabin so it lands with them.
But the designs have caused mixed reactions.
One person commented: “Of the millions of flights a year, less than 500 people die worldwide a year from plane crashes.”
While another had concerns too, adding: “This whole concept dramatically weakens the airframe because now you have joints and fittings to connect a fuselage and a body together where once you had a whole fuselage to reinforce the airframe.”
However, a questionnaire conducted by the inventor found that 95 per cent of people would be willing to buy a more expensive ticket in order to use such a safety system.
This isn’t the first design the Ukrainian engineer has produced.
Last year, Tatarenko received patents for an invention with an escape capsule system that would rescue passengers on board.
The capsule would be released within seconds of the emergency situation and through a rear hatch at the tail end of the plane.
Once ejected, two gunpowder engines will take control to slow down the speed and then a parachute will pop out.
But, according to Tatarenko, it could not save lives if the plane explodes inside or comes under a rocket attack.
According to official statistics there is 24 per cent survival rate of passengers in a plane crash but just one flight in every 1.2million does crash.
There were 111 plane crashes in 2014, which went down from 138 in 2013.
However, there is more chance of dying in a car accident as figures currently stand at one in 5,000 chance of crashing in a car journey.