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Friday, September 15, 2006
10:12:00 AM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment
From the Economist magazine. One of the more choice quotes:
The flight attendants are now pointing out the emergency exits. This is the part of the announcement that you might want to pay attention to. So stop your sudoku for a minute and listen: knowing in advance where the exits are makes a dramatic difference to your chances of survival if we have to evacuate the aircraft. Also, please keep your seat belt fastened when seated, even if the seat-belt light is not illuminated. This is to protect you from the risk of clear-air turbulence, a rare but extremely nasty form of disturbance that can cause severe injury. Imagine the heavy food trolleys jumping into the air and bashing into the overhead lockers, and you will have some idea of how nasty it can be. We don't want to scare you. Still, keep that seat belt fastened all the same.
And you know what? I do keep my seat belt fastened at all times. For those very reasons.
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10:12:00 AM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment
If Plane Announcements Had Some Relationship to Reality
From the Economist magazine. One of the more choice quotes:
The flight attendants are now pointing out the emergency exits. This is the part of the announcement that you might want to pay attention to. So stop your sudoku for a minute and listen: knowing in advance where the exits are makes a dramatic difference to your chances of survival if we have to evacuate the aircraft. Also, please keep your seat belt fastened when seated, even if the seat-belt light is not illuminated. This is to protect you from the risk of clear-air turbulence, a rare but extremely nasty form of disturbance that can cause severe injury. Imagine the heavy food trolleys jumping into the air and bashing into the overhead lockers, and you will have some idea of how nasty it can be. We don't want to scare you. Still, keep that seat belt fastened all the same.
And you know what? I do keep my seat belt fastened at all times. For those very reasons.
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What flight attendant - the last flight I was on we had a recorded message only - but I guess that's what you get on an 18-seater.....
Also - what bathroom - at least they warned us in the airport and it was a short flight!
birdie -
picture it :
Small plane ... trailing a piece of bacon ... Large plane behind ... following ... never losing sight of that bacon on the string ... Baconcat at the controls ... while passengers are focused on the flight attendents ... no problem ... Its BACONCAT to the rescue@!! -
"...flight attendants are now..." What do you mean "now"? If you didn't know they always do that, you must have had your head in your Sudoko before now.
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I always stay seated as long as possible...which is hard if you traveling overseas-especially if you really need to use the bathroom. I hate plane toilets! Julie
9/20/06 2:11 AM
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