Why are airplanes equipped with lifevests instead of parachutes as we mostly fly over distances of land?

Question

Why are airplanes equipped with lifevests instead of parachutes as we mostly fly over distances of land?

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Answer 1

If a plane is breaking apart enough that you can’t glide it down, everybody will already be some combination of dead or panicked beyond all hope of putting on parachute gear in the dark.

Also airliners are pressurized tubes moving at 550 mph. You can’t just open a window and climb out.

Remember that lady who got sucked out the window and killed a couple years ago? She likely had 250 psi pressing her out the window. Hit anything on the way out and you’re dead