If you haven’t tried it, eating cheddar cheese slices while watching these Aircraft safety films is really fun. I don’t know why, but the cheese and the Aircraft films just go well together.
I dreaded ART each year when I was a FA. Now I'm sitting here watching this, reminiscing of all the good friends and good times I had at NWA! I'll always be grateful to Northwest! Especially grateful to Marilee Tahlala in HR, John Altheide, Mack Ainsworth, and Patrick Khoury for giving me a shot at my dream job! 30+ years later, still loving the airline industry, though under different paint job and different job title now. I miss Northwest!
So where did Douglas come up with the idea to use the plug hatch exit for the DC-9? Looks REALLY sketchy. If there's a fire, and the tailcone doesn't deploy, you're trapped at the back of the plane.
Pskilla502 - Absolute crap. Clear instruction is given to go forward. Where there are 3 doors and 2 or 4 overwing exits. How exactly is anyone trapped anywhere!?
The older dc9 along with the md80 has the single jack screw built in the tail which makes the airplane go up or down & is a very serious flaw with these particular model planes.anyone forgets to put grease on it & you are coming out of the sky.just ask Alaska airlines.
I have a question for any FA, or anyone with knowledge. How do you evacuate someone with a disability? If they can't physically jump and slide? Either in a wheelchair or their limbs just don't work that way anymore?
Girl, this is like 5 years late, but they would get an able-bodied, like a well-built passenger to get the passenger, or they would lift them and assist them down the slide, but most times, they will have a caregiver to provide that assistance.
I apologise for the *very* slow response to this question. The two are located at the same place on the DC-9 and are just different versions of the same exit.
You can open the 747 door inflight, this is only in extreme circumstances, the aircraft has to descend to 10,000 feet and reduce airspeed, we then crack the door, with the door lever in the 12 o'clock position
+Peter La Anguila Cross check means verification that doors are armed and ready for pushback.....retired flight attendant for 39 years....Rahmat you are 100% correct.
That's actually wrong. It doesn't mean evacuate. It means that evacuation is immanent and gives the FA's time to evaluate outside conditions and assess the situation before the actual evacuation.
Statistically most accidents happen during takeoff taxing Off The Runway or taxing in the runway. You definitely want your flight attendant to know how to operate those doors if something happens while you're still on the runway and you have a chance to exit the aircraft you won't be "pffting" then. You'll be like a deer in headlights waiting for their commands and for them to show you the way out. Also no aircraft Dives out of the sky is almost impossible with the technology today if any aircraft is diving straight of the sky that's intentional by the pilot who has a death wish.
