Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "What's Actually the Plane of the Future" video.

Why not have parachutes on planes to help them make emergency landings on short airstrips with heavy weight and high speeds? Why not have cameras on the planes so that the crew can see if the wings or tail has been torn off or damaged? Why not have cockpits that could be opened and closed remotly from a control tower, so that both hijacker and suicidal german pilots can kill people? Why not have a button which disables all auto-pilot functions at once? If the pilots of the Russian plane that went to Hong Kong had known that the auto-pilot was still activated then maybe this crash could have been avoided. But now they didn't know that a 15 year old boy had accidentally had messed things up in the over-complicated Airbus. Wouldn't it be better if we flew more planes with 4 engines instead of just 2? If both engines gets taken out by birds (like the plane on hudson river) then the entire plane will crash. But if you have 4 engines you will have a better chance that atleast 1 engine survives a confrontation with a bunch of birds. And 1 engine is enough for safely landing a big plane in case of emergency (as shown by the Canadian plane over the atlantic which got 3 of its 4 engines knocked out and then landed on the Azores islands instead of crashing into the ocean). And why not have an extra pair of stabilizers on a plane in the case of one gets destroyed? I destroyed tail never ends well for a plane - not for japanese jumbojets or alaska airline planes. So I wonder wouldn't it be possible to atleast do something about this problem? It feels so stupid that an entire plane and the lives of many hundreds of passangers needs to be lost only because of a minor failure. Bad maintance, wear and tear and metal fatigue, or some electrical error, or incompetence of the pilot that destroys the rudder makes a mistake impossible to recover from when one rudder or stabilizer has been lost. So I think that planes should not be that relient on just one rudder. If not even a japanese aircrew with over 20.000 flight hours each could save their airplane with their skill, then what chances do then normal less skilled pilots have? They failed to stabilize their plane with 4 engines and pumping fuel from one side to another, and driving engines on one side faster than the engines on the other side to turn the plane... so I think that tells a lot on how much out of control a plane becomes after losing one vertical stabilizer and rudder. So why not build a tail with two vertical stabilizers on big airliners, like those on F-14 Tomcat? And why not use canard wings like those on Su-30SM or Gripen?
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