Giant Parachute For Planes

[Monkeymagic99]

We have huge parachutes for space shuttle rockets and for returning astronauts.

Would it not be a viable idea to have huge chutes on planes for when engines malfunction etc?

[237SJ]

It was a burst tyre that pierced the fuel tank and caused the fire with Concorde. They lined the tanks with Keflar after that but it's future was already doomed.

[spathiphyllum]

it was debris on the track that caused the issue, but the issue was a engine blew up.. Sounds like a failure to me!

[Spicerack]

Wasn't such a daft idea after all.

[Zacs-Master]

But a parachute wouldn't have helped, would it!

[IJKLM]

On the Concorde thing...

The Concorde was accelerating on its take-off run. One of the tyres hit a piece of debris on the runway that had dropped off an earlier aircraft.

The tyre disintegrated, and a large piece of reinforced rubber flew upwards into a fuel tank.

That released fuel, which ignited while the engines were on full power.

That caused more fires in the engines and elsewhere.

Because Concorde was designed for supersonic cruise, it is not especially aerodynamically efficient at low speeds and low altitudes. The take off relies more on very powerful engines than sub-sonic airliners, which rely on aerodynamic lift and much less powerful engines.
With two of the engines out, it could not gain sufficient height to get into supersonic cruise and, despite heroic efforts by the pilot, it crashed.

Since then, the tyres on most aircraft have been converted to aramid-reinforce radials (Michelin's trade name is NZG - Near zero growth), and fuel tnks are reinforced and have been re-located to less vulnerable areas of the airframe.

I reported heavily on that terrible accident back when it happened and those details are ingrained on my mind.

[derek-33]

spathiphyllum
rubbish again, you really should check out what your taking about before just texting
engine or engines did not blow up

[Hopkirk]

If you were to have a total engine failure, slowing down is not the problem.

Quite the opposite, the pilot needs to glide as far as necessary to reach a safe place to put it down. Deploying a parachute would make it plummet, possibly nose first, to the ground.