Originally Posted by
tommyleo
No, it's perfectly logical and is backed up by statistics, not emotion.
That makes no sense because with no security, terrorists would go on a killing spree.
That said, there must be a way to attach a child onto the parent's seat belt. That way, the parent will not have to buy another seat and the baby will be restrained.
Why not have entire families stand (like RyanAir's little publicity stunt suggestion?). You could cheaply fit a family of eight into a single row that would ordinarily hold three people. Think of all the lives that would save. Just hang little handholds on the ceiling like on city buses.
No.
A human being belongs in a seat, and that human being needs to be restrained in that seat. Two people in one seat does not work in an accident.
One person crushes the other.
Simply being tied down does not work. The restraint must be proper.
Several accidents involving skydiving aircraft have demonstrated that simply being restrained during an accident in NOT sufficient.
(skydivers typically loop a floor-mounted seatbelt through their harness)
PROPER restraint and support is required. This is NOT provided by a mother's lap, even if the baby is tied to the mother.
Baby goes into a proper carrier; carrier is properly secured into a seat. Anything less is absolutely unfit for air travel.