Flight: Bombay
Date: 15th July
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Take off and landing seems pretty easy. If you do it every day, it seems more uneventful than any other day. However according to ICAO statistics take off and landing are the most critical phases of the flight. After a busy flight, the jump seat feels heavenly to most of us. Yet what appears to be staring at the empty skies is more of a mental review for the airhostesses in preparation for an emergency.
In a so called safe world of air travel, there is always a possibility for the unspoken to occur. At that moment, the person who served chicken or fish while ago transforms in to a complete different person. If it goes right they will be held as heroes, if it goes wrong it would be a moment of silence on behalf of the lost ones.
Many travelers today despite how frequently they travel, never ever pay attention to the safety videos. In case of a sudden emergency it is imperative to know how to secure yourself, how to inflate the life jacket (where to find your life jacket first of all). If there is time of course the flight attendant will show you, if not you would just have to be that monkey who sees, and does. In most recent air emergencies, the world was surprised by how people do slide off an aircraft, not forgetting their duty free purchases. It has come to that people love their goods, more than themselves.
On today’s flight, looking at the amount of luggage, I just hoped that if an emergency occurs, people would be smart enough not to pull those bags out. No 1 there is absolutely no time as even the largest commercial planes are supposed to be evacuated within less than a minute. If passengers would block other people for the sake of their duty free bag, someone might just not make it.
Situational awareness is the key to be able to prepare for an emergency (this is the reason the window blinds are to be opened, to be awake and be aware of what is happening around you during takeoff and landing is important). As we prepare the cabin for landing, it is usual to see passengers reclining that seat back, or remove the seat belt once the air hostess passes by taking safety for granted. This of course is a practice of cultivating their demise.
As I sat down on my jump seat today, looking at many faces of my passengers ( some excited to be landing, some dozing off, some intoxicated, some engorged in there entertainment) I reviewed for 30 seconds...what would I do to save this people if god forbid we won’t land safe as usual?
Love, Dany
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