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Planes are pretty frail. You'd risk completely destroying the wings. That would leave you with a tube filled with 300 people 10km in the air - but rapidly approaching ground level.



What's that phrase they use, "uncontrolled descent into terrain"?


A plane that's deemed a danger to anything is probably not 10km in the air. At that height it wouldn't even hit Mount Everest, let alone any people. And a plane without wings still has momentum and the lifting body effect going for it to assist an emergency landing. Then again, destroying (part of) the wings probably also causes all the fuel stored in the wings to ignite.


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A plane without wings flies about as well as any other largish tube, i.e. approximately straight down. As for a plane without engines - the ~5 successful jetliner landings w/o engines in the entire history are called Miracle This and Miracle That for a reason; those things need a lot of power just to keep in the air. Speaking of which: iginted fuel would be the least of your worries - destroyed wing parts means destroyed lift; again, good luck flying a brick.



See the part about "miracles": a black swan event doesn't mean that it's repeatable. I'm aware of such incidents - there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider , there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9 , there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549 - each of which is a case of great skill and great luck combined: nothing that could be adopted as standard operating procedures.

Your argument is "look, people have won the lottery before, therefore it's a good idea" - an improbable happyend captures attention far more than the usual outcome of the accident lottery, which is something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191




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