[ELI5] If Astronauts can be delivered safely back to earth using parachutes, why couldn’t the same technology be used to save a doomed aircraft?

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I definitely have a five year old’s understanding of aviation and engineering but I’m envisioning a system in which the wings/tail section are intentionally designed to break away in the event of a catastrophic failure, and a parachute deploys to carry just the fuselage back down at a safe speed.

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This is a typical scenario that I experience at work everyday, since I have to create change.

1,000 reasons why it can’t be done.

Occasionally, one or two voices with solutions and possibilities.

The, “it happens rarely” comments made me laugh. If you were on the rare plane that was crashing, you’d wish you were more limitless forward-thinking, and solution oriented, at that moment.

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