Originally Posted by
s80dude
I agree.... they gave us some info at Recurrent Training a few years ago that basically said in impact situations, the G-force would make it impossible for someone to hold on to their child.
I think that's almost certainly true (assuming the lap child is not otherwise secured with a harness-style device like the Baby B'Air).
But as it pertains to the safety of passengers other than the child, is it not also true of personal items and would-be projectiles like laptop computers?
And how do you define "impact"? A collision involving an airplane at taxiing speed might present the very rare instance where securing a child could pay safety dividends, but a mid-air collision or any sort of crash where the plane was at airspeed prior to the impact undoubtedly would not except in the one-in-a-trillion miracle situation.