Also, here’s a fun fact. Every aircraft toilet has two masks. This isn’t for mile high club members, nor is it a backup. One is for you, the other one is for your baby, if present in the toilet with you. Might help parents to know this fact.
I'm from Mexico and me and my boyfriend moved to Canada on March 9, 1998. We flew Canadian Airlines; Airbus A 320. It was a beautiful experience and in those days before we landed in Toronto they served breakfast (fruit or eggs). As a kid I remember watching in awe when CP Air planes were landing in Mexico City. I remember those beautiful DC-8's (they were huge). I miss Canadian Airlines. It offered such a great service. We still live in Toronto, and we both work for a hotel that years ago was a CP too. Sometimes I found cutlery with the old logo (CP) embroidered. It brings back memories when CP Air used to fly, the same logo in the cutlery as it was on the planes and trains too (CP Rail). Those were the good all days.
It's a shame that most airlines don't have training videos for their cabin staff to take home, it seems to be such a practical way to revise your SEP's. You can read the manual a hundred times over, but seeing the visual makes it a lot more real. I also loved BA's ditching segment. That came out in the 70's when the 747 was new and most crew members couldn't imagine evacuating an aircraft of that size.
It’s somehow rather comforting to know that no matter where you are on your plane, you’re never too far from fire extinguishers or oxygen bottles. Especially since if a flight attendant (or you?) is waking around on a decompression, you kinda need those bottles rather quickly.
Daytime, No ice, Zero precipitation,Calm waters, everyone is calm, no medical situations, nobody screaming for their meds, nobody overweight, nobody physically disabled, aircraft fully intact. Everyone working as a team ( even if their part is to simply sit quietly) This would be great if even 1 water ditching of this caliber ( the Hudson ditching was unlike a 747-400 going down in an Ocean / Sea where rafts and their canopy's are needed ) Truthfully no matter how many pieces the aircraft breaks up into and if the exits can even be located to blow the slide / rafts, the fact that training is instilled into crew members minds will be better than not having any knowledge / training at all. So good for them, besides they learn from each unfortunate accident.
Don't know why this was on my recommended list, but loved to watch the similarities with my training...sadly, despite loving the 747, I just saw some design aspects that have been greatly improved on Boeing's later aircraft
I've always wondered if the plane needed to ditch in the middle of the North Atlantic, far from help reaching them, whether the passengers in the life rafts will be in bad shape, in case help takes a long time to reach them, especially in poor weather, and I'm not even thinking about no food or water. At least with the survivors of the Titanic, everybody who made it to a lifeboat managed to survive.
I found the full BA video here, although it's a different version (classic life rafts instead of slide-rafts): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G9266dVcfWY.html
After a bunch of evacuations where the slides didn't deploy, government regulations require that they pop at least one slide every time they expire and need repacking. That's when they film these things, so it's basically free. Also, the footage at 10:55 isn't a Canadian plane, none of their 747 liveries had the dark blue stripe at door level.
The only thing that’s missing in their emergency equipment is raft survival kits, imagine being on a raft in the middle of the pacific or Atlantic without necessary survival supplies
damn 1L requires 3 hands, what with: -holding down the gust lock while closing the door with the door handle and assist handle -evacuating bringing a first aid kit, radio beacon, and megaphone with you
Yes. But you would not bring emergency equipment with you. In normal operation it requires 2 hands to close, yes, but in emergency operation (which is what you are describing) the door is left open, and you still only need 2 hands.
There was a United flight a while ago where they would have had to ditch in the middle of the Pacific if they had taken a route that strayed further from Hawaii.
On a lot of planes the slide has a metal rod attached to the top of it that fits into a housing underneath the door. Opening the door pulls the slide out of its case but the base of the slide stays attached under the door as the slide deploys. Here the arming lever probably engages & disengages the rod from the slide container to the housing under the door. I remember some planes were where the whole process was manual and you placed a red flag on the inside of the door window to warn anyone outside that the slide was armed.
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No. Canadian Airlines was a competing airlines with Air Canada. But towards the 2000s Canadian went threw financial difficulties and was then acquired by Air Canada.
