Why are there seat belts on airplanes but not buses?

Question:
Today i just read a question where someone asked why buses didnt have any seat belts and the answer was that it would be harder to get people out of seat belts in the case of an accident and that buses were built to be safe.. (something like that). well then that got me to thinking that the same should go for an airplane too. so someone please tell me Why are there seat belts on airplanes but not buses?

Answers:

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Actually, they have shown in studies that safety belts in buses would need to be 5 point restraints or they would cause more damage in an accident than not having the belt would.

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Scary thought.

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Buses don't travel through your neighborhood at 500 Knots.

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There are seat belts in planes to help with turbulence (don't want to hit the roof).

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Buses don't have them because you'd actually be statistically safer without them.

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I think it is because there can be terbulance in an airplane. And there is more stuff closly packed to it needs to stay more secure. And in a bus sometimes there is one, two, three, maybe even four to a seat so you can't change the number or seat belts.

In your opinion or base on your experience.....?

so they can find your dead body strapped to a plane seat easier. your dead body won't fly as far in a bus crash as it will in a plane crash. to make it simple, some things in life just don't make any sense.

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That is good question cause yea a plane might travel 500 knots or so at that speed but seat belts main objective is to prevent the passengers or driver from ejecting out seat upon wreck last I recalled I think you would survive a bus wreck with no seat belt than you with airplane going so fast there is really no hope on stopping it on wreck with seat belts.

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Buses seriously need to have seat belts, and that is a current hot issue in many places.

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cause you have more time to evacuate the airplane than you do a bus... and plus they are built with more safety features... and b/c the pilot said so
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Buses seldom drop 10,000 feet in 3 seconds without warning. Turbulence can really throw people around much more so than a bumpy road with a bus. Flying through storms is much more likely to bounce you out of your seat that riding through a storm on a bus.

Check points, do you think the excuse is the real reason? Seat belts r the reason of the day today.?

The reason is almost the opposite,in the event of an accident an airplane can spread debri and bodies and body parts over a very large area so people are put in their seats to help identify the deceased in an accident.

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There are seat belts on Coaches (or buses) where I come from, (Australia). In my opinion the safety issues are similar, only the beaurocratic decision making is the difference..

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How many buses do you know of that have fallen from 30,000 feet and ended up in a ball of fire on the ground? The seatbelts in airplanes are mainly used for turbulence. They also help keep the bodies of passengers close to the wreckage so the rescuers don't have to look very far for them!

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Airplanes have different safety standard codes than buses. So the laws can be different and the

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The fact is that seat belts for bus riders are to costly and if a bus had seat belts in a bad crash the seats detach because seats are only bolted to floor. Doesn't make sense not to have seat belts for in big crash insurance costs are very costly.
On a plane, seat belts work in turbulence but in a head on with earth or other objects it's pretty much a raw deal for they don't work at that level.
Another accepted standard that has out lived it's understanding of why. Other words both should have seat belts.
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