Passenger plane airbags - GIF

[Altair]

Passenger plane airbags.




Previously:

Airbag cut in half - photo
Motorcyclist airbag activates in MotoGP race - GIF and patent

[Bony]

If you're dropping uncontrolled from the sky at several hundred km/h I'm not sure an airbag will offer you any comfort.

[nova_robotics]

Every seat in commercial passenger aircraft should face backwards. It's been proven multiple times that reverse facing seats are FAR more survivable than forward facing seats, but the perception is the public will reject them. We wouldn't need bandaids like airbags in seatbelts if the seats were mounted in the correct orientation.

[Bony]

I agree.
And to enhance road safety further, face passenger seats rearwards (and fit a black box in every car, prohibit motor cycles etc ). I think it's human nature to prefer to see where you are going rather than where you've been.

[tachetailleur]

There's an interesting AAIB report about this (Kegworth air disaster, UK, 1989, 39+8 fatalities and 79 survivors), see para 1.17.13 on page 89 (101 in the pdf):
https://humanfactors101.com/wp-conte...400-g-obme.pdf
Rear facing seats were/are used on most RAF transports, but I suppose "customers" don't have much of a say in the matter. I used a rear facing seat on a US commercial flight in the late 90's and apart from take off (where you have a feeling of sliding out of your seat) I don't recall any other real problems.
It's interesting to note that in the Kegworth crash all the overhead storage bins broke free...

[nova_robotics]

I think it's human nature to prefer to see where you are going rather than where you've been.

You must fly in one of those fancy glass airplanes. I fly poverty class and have to fly in the ones with tiny little windows that you can't see out of.