Airplane Crash Survival -- with Notes.pptx
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How to survive an airplane crash is excerpted from an article in "the art of manliness"
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Airplane Crash Survival -- with Notes.pptx
- 6. SCoR Principles: 1. Everyone is personally responsible for ensuring safety. Always follow airplane safety requirements and processes, read the safety brochure and listen to the safety discussion. 5. A questioning attitude is cultivated. Evaluate potential safety situations for your flight and have a plan. 6. Learning never stops. Look for opportunities to ensure your safety every time you fly. 7. Hazards are identified and evaluated for every task, every time. Make yourself aware of the crash procedures and the locations of exits for your flight. Know what you must do to get off the plane quickly and safely. 8. A healthy respect is maintained for what can go wrong. Be aware that routine air travel can result in serious safety consequences if you don’t understand the risks and behave accordingly.
Editor's Notes
- The National Transportation Safety Board says that if you fly every minute of every day for 247 years, you will not experience an airplane crash. Those are pretty good statistics. And if you are in a crash in the 248th year, the survival rate is still 95.7%. And 40% of fatalities that do occur happen in crashes that would have been survivable had the victims taken appropriate action. In other words, nearly all airplane crashes are survivable and close to half of all airplane crash fatalities might have been prevented had passengers taken proper action. So why did some folks live and some folks not? Key point #1: You’ve Got Less Than 90 Seconds to Get Out. The thing that kills most passengers in a plane crash isn’t the actual impact, it’s the fire afterwards. People vastly underestimate how quickly a fire can spread and consume an airplane. The reality is that it takes, on average just 90 seconds for a jet-fuel fire to burn through the plane’s aluminum fuselage and consume everything and everyone in it. Key Point #2. Make an escape plan today, right now! The #2 key ingredient to surviving a crash is Action, with a capital A. The Normalcy Bias causes our brains to assume that things will be predictable and normal all the time. It seems amazing, but instead of taking immediate action after a crash, most people just sit in their seat or look for their luggage, even if they can see flames. To overcome your own personal normalcy bias, you need to have an action plan on what you’re going to do in the event of an accident every single time you get on a plane. Don’t think that all you have to do is wait for the flight crew’s instructions-although you absolutely should heed whatever they DO say. But 45 percent of the flight attendants in survivable crashes are incapacitated in some way. You need to be ready to take action without direction from anyone.
- The Five Row Rule A few years ago, Popular Mechanics put out an article that analyzed every commercial plane crash in the U.S. and where the survivors were sitting in each of those accidents. The article concluded that in the event of a crash, the safest place to be sitting was in the back of the plane. This urban legend has become accepted wisdom among many of us, but this idea is simply not true. The best seat to have is in the exit row as those folks are the first ones out. If you can’t snag an exit seat, go for the aisle. Aisle seats have a 64% chance of survival compared to the 58% chance for a window seat. Also, those who survive a plane crash typically only had to move an average of five rows to escape.. That’s why, whenever I make an airline reservation, I try to get a seat on an exit row and if I can’t, I’m on the aisle within 5 rows of the door. I do the same for my family. You can always tell it’s us because we’re that family with the well-behaved kids in the aisle seats on the two rows before and two rows after the middle exits.
- Safety Cards As a frequent flier, you may think you don’t need to bother reading the safety card or listening to the safety briefing, but the FAA has found that frequent fliers are the least informed on what to do in the event of a plane crash. In other words, frequent fliers are the ones that die while first-time flyers are more observant during the safety orientation and therefore the ones that survive. I suggest that you use the Safety Card as a prompt every time you get on an airplane. Take the Safety Card out of the pocket in front of you to see where the exits are, then look up and visually locate your seat and its position relative to the closest exits. Then ask yourself how you’d get out of that exit if you had only 90 seconds.
- The Brace Position Brace positions significantly up the chances of survival in an emergency crash landing and should be part of your plan. Brace positions help reduce the velocity of your head when it inevitably slams into the seat in front of you. Moreover, they help minimize arms and legs flailing and your body being flung uncontrollably around the cabin. Commercial airplanes land at around 150 miles per hour and take off at up to 200 miles per hour—and that’s how fast your body is moving too. In addition to assuming a brace position, make sure your seatbelt is securely fastened — low and tight — over your lap. Lap belts are designed to withstand well over 3,000 pounds of force, which is many times more than your body could handle without passing out.
- Plus 3/Minus 8 Plus 3/Minus 8 is airline code for the first three minutes after takeoff and the last eight minutes before landing. Close to 80% of all plane crashes occur during this timeframe. In between those times, the chances of a plane crash occurring drop dramatically. So always be alert and ready to take action during the first 3 minutes after takeoff and the last 8 minutes before landing. Some additional planning suggestions especially for these times: Don’t sleep. Make sure your shoes are on. Make sure your seatbelt is securely fastened — low and tight. Absolutely forget your luggage. You can always buy a new suitcase but you can’t buy a new you. Don’t forget your kids. Your brain does stupid things when its panicked and often times parents die going back into a burning plane to get the kids.