I was yesterday watching Dr. Who ep. 2 season 1 in Netflix on my Android and it was about the end of the world by earth being destroyed by the expansion of the sun into a red giant (our sun is not large enough to become a supernova but it will collapse eventuall into a neutron star unless something is done to prevent that). The main character, Dr. Who, an Alien space traveler made a funny and sarcastic comment about the greed of the last human who wanted to destroy a space ship because she wanted to kill a passenger and thus become the largest stakeholder in a company saying (paraphrasing) "5 billion years (of History) and is all about the money" at which point I had to laugh because is what I still see today when large corporations omit to include eject seats in the design of their aircrafts. Well, I decided to check how much money it really cost to include (notice we are speaking about human life vs. cost if this makes sense at all) well, they are not that costly but basically they don't do it to save a few bucks and to avoid the hassle. Here is the analysis of the cons along with a short response on my part:
(Quoted and edited from http://www.ejectionsite.com/eairliner.htm)
"Pro: Safe recovery of passengers in the event of a catastrophic disaster.
Answer: good to know this is not enough a good justification, probably adding a saving a son, a brother, a parent, a family or something might make more sense.
Cons:
Danger to maintainance crews Answer: wtf, ejection seats are dangerous???
Danger to passengers due to accidental
discharge Answer: Hmmm... well, unless they are totally stupid (which of course can't be discarded) they wouldn't include a small electronics to control that they are not activated unless a critical situation by the captain or the crew.
Possible injuries to passengers due to use Answer: IMAO I would rather suffer minor scratchs than to die.
Weight increase Answer: Money.
Larger seat area requires fewer seats in given area Answer: Money and greed.
Egress hatch requirement requires considerable redesign of cabin fuselage Answer: Rubbish repated below
Cost- Ejectable seat would add costs for:
Redesign costs Answer: rubbish repeated above
Development costs Answer: Double rubbish repeated above
Seats (military seats can cost upward of $100,000 per unit) Answer: more money and greed, and poor knowledge of mass production cost reduction (ignorance)
Periodic maintainance Answer: More money and greed, and laziness or maybe they don't want to hire more technicians.
Replacement parts Answer: Just nonsense
Maintainance crew training/explosive certification Answer: More rubbish to add another con
Minimal time of use Answer: and a lifetime for passegers saved.
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