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First let me say that I have absolutely no qualifications to suggest an airplane design. I am neither engineer nor aeronautics specialist. I am a frequent traveler though I don't think that gives me any particular ability to make this suggestion. I am merely a regular person with an idea and figure this is a good place for it.
After watching CNN simulate the crash of flight 3407 into a home in Buffalo - over and over again thank you CNN - it struck me that plane crashes causing major fatalities tend to have something in common: they dive. They dive, being led, by one of their 4 ends (nose, tail, left or right wing). It seems, unscientifically that the nose is the highest probability in terms of diving, as a result of airplane design. And if my assumptions are true, when the plane starts to dive, the force pulls every person and object right into the most dangerous part of the plane - the portion of it which hits the ground first. Usually there is an intact and recognizable portion of the plane, (e.g. its rear 20%) which survives. So I thought, why can't we get more people to that last remaining portion of the plane?This led me to think about seatbelts on planes, the one-dimensional lap belt which straps you to your seat; so whatever the fate of the seat, is the fate of the passenger. But what if the seatbelt were a multi-dimensional harness, not unlike those you see strapped onto trampoline jumpers at fairs, which can pull people in 1 of 4 directions (up, down, left and right), or at least in one direction – to the rear. And, what if we had a system of cords and harnesses on planes that could release, in unison, to pull people in a specific direction (the opposite of the diving portion of the plane)? So for example, if the nose was diving, the nose, left and right wing cords would release and the tail cords would tighten, pulling people against the dive and into the rear of the plane?Then I thought about the problems. For example, strapping into a harness is just not as simple, convenient or as comfortable as a lap belt. But more significantly, if all the harnesses activate in unison, cords will inevitably be tangled and dangerous to people in and of themselves, exacerbated by the traditional linear seating conditions which exist on today's airplanes. So I considered then, a staggered seating arrangement - think more diagonal lines - so that when cords pull, the effects of being pulled back onto one another are ameliorated.I know this all sounds far-fetched, and I am sure the folks who design airplanes have already considered this and thousands of other ideas about how to increase the number of survivors in these horrible crashes. But if the only thing I am risking is my own embarrassment that someone will laugh at my idea, and the possibility that someone whose job it is will someday be searching “airline design” and may see it, I can bear that burden.
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