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Ask HN: Airbags / parachutes for airplanes?

2 points by sreedhar ↗ HN
Just some thoughts after the watching some air crash investigations.

Should airplanes have outer airbags which can be triggered before the crash - to reduce impact?

Should airplanes have some kind of parachutes - may be 100s of them which can be triggered before the crash - again to reduce impact?

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