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It is every passenger's worst fear.
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We were in the water, up to our knees
and it was just freezing cold
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But many people do live to tell the tale.
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Absolutely, accidents are survivable
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The key is knowing what to do...
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And that is
when you need to have your wits about you
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I know,
I have to figure out where the exit rows are
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...and when to do it.
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Because you never know,
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it is right at the very last second
that every thing happens.
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GETTING OUT ALIVE
Season 13, Episode 11
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These are true stories.
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They are based on official reports
and eyewitness accounts.
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July, 6th, 2013
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Aircraft debris litters the main runway
at San Francisco Intern'l Airport.
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A burned out haul is all that is left
of Asiana Airlines Flight 214
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after a devastating crash landing.
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Cell phone video captures the terrifying scene,
moments after impact
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The Asiana crew rushes
to get passengers off the plane.
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My brain was very clear
and I planned what I had to do immediately.
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Actually, I was not thinking but acting
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As soon as I heard emergency escape,
I conducted the evacuation.
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In your mind it was like
their training was flashing in front of them,
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It just became second nature.
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The Asiana evacuation is remarkably successful.
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Of the 307 people on board,
304 make it out alive
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Revealing a surprising truth
about serious aviation accidents
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If you are ever in one,
chances are you will survive.
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As a result of studies that have been done
that at least 80% of the accidents are survivable
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Barbara Dunn is an aviation safety consultant
and former flight attendant.
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We take our job very seriously,
we take our safety roll very seriously.
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If you asked any member of the cabin crew
what their primary function on board was
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they would tell you that it was a safety role.
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But how do flight attendants master that role?
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How do they become survival experts?
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The answer is behind the doors of a facility
that passengers rarely get to see.
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According to my practice,
the best training is a practical training.
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That is why there is
a cabin evacuation trainer of Airbus 320
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Richard Kubelka is the chief cabin crew instructor
at the Czech Airlines training CENTER in Prague.
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It is one of only a few facilities in the industry
that offers realistic cabin emergency training.
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The cabin emergency trainer
is not a real aircraft,
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it is a mock up
it is a model.
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The 28 tonnes simulator has 2 emergency slides:
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One at the forward door,
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the other at the over-wing exit.
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Inside, their are 40 seats with overhead bins
and realistic lighting.
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We can simulate all kinds of flights,
a normal flight
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or some non-standard situation.
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Leading today’s session
is cabin instructor Thomas Tjupeck
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Tjupeck is preparing 11 young flight attendants
for the worst.
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All the practical scenarios
have to be performed
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We will play and save
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They'll take turns
being passengers and crew members
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on a series of simulated disasters.
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we are ready for fly
I am pressing the START button
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that means the engines are starting now.
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From the control room at the back of the simulator
Richard Kubelka initiates a scenario.
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We are now taking off
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The simulator's powerful hydraulic lift system
comes to life.
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The hydraulic system simulates
the movement of the aircraft
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so, we can shake the cabin during the training
to simulate a real situation during the flight.
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Please, fasten your seat-belts
You are flying through turbulent area
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In the cabin, it looks, feels, and sounds exactly
like a real flight
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The training has to be as realistic as possible
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in order to prepare you for anything
that might happen on the aircraft.
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I press the LANDING button,
hence we are landing now
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Nobody knows
that something will happen in a few minutes
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It is also called
the unprepared emergency situation
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The most of our accidents take place
during take off or landing
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and they are unprepared,
you don't know it is going to happen.
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Often, passengers are burying themselves
in a newspaper or a book,
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some of them go to sleep
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and that is
when you need to have your wits about you.
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In August, 2005, the cabin crew
of Air France Flight 358
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needed not only their wits,
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but nerves of steel
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Their A-340 descends through heavy wind
and pounding rain
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to Toronto's Pearson Intern'l Airport.
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The pilots struggle
to put the plane on the runway.
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This landing was more intense and harder
than anytime I've ever landed
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The bumpiness of the landing would have caught
everybody's attention
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The fact that they were landing in a bad storm
would have heightened the awareness.
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It was a very difficult landing,
everyone started clapping
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and even a lady who was sitting next to me said:
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Wow, that was an amazing landing.
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As soon as she finished that sentence,
all hell broke loose.
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The plane started violently going up and down.
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Then, as it speeds down the runway at 148 km/hr
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Flight 358 runs out of room.
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At that point,
I believed that we are all going to die
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It was obvious that no one can survive this thing.
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I thought: That was it.
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As the smell of jet-fuel fills the cabin,
panic begins to spread.
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The plane is now a deadly fire-trap.
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The fire started in the aft-end
of the aircraft
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People in the front didn't realize
the severity of this situation.
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So, the people in the front
were not as motivated to get out as quickly,
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until there was an announcement made by
one of the crew-members in the back-end.
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She motivated people to get moving and get out.
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In an instant,
the flight attendant Deminor is gone
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We are trained to be forceable
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And we are trained to completely forget
about the service-aspect of our job
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and focus just on safety.
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People were crawling over the seats
they were pushing each other
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They basically all for themselves
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If they cannot control the panic...
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...the crush of frightened passengers
could quickly turn into a deadly stampede.
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297 passengers are in
a desparate struggle
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to escape the burning wreckage
of Air France Flight 358
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Everybody was expecting the plane to blow up.
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Some haven't taken any of the simple precautions
safety experts recommend.
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Making sure that you wear lace up shoes
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and not a shoe that is going to fly off
on impact and leave you barefoot.
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Wearing natural fibres that don't burn as easily,
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something that is made out of polyester or nylon
or synthetic fabric of some description
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When it gets hot and it melts,
it sticks to my skin
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So, if I am wearing cotton
or wool or a natural fibre,
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my chances of getting burned are far less
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I could see the air-attendant there
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struggling with the fact that:
Should I or should I not open this door
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because the fire was raging in front of it.
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The attendant quickly makes the decision to start
sending passengers down the emergency slides
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We just ran up, as fast as we could
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thorns, through whatever is left on the ground
where the plane was
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Astonishingly, every single
passenger and the entire crew of Flight 358
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make it out alive
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In their report, the NTSB praised the crew
very highly for the job that they did
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attributed the fact that
everybody got out to the actions of the cabin crew
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We really need to take seriously
those safety commands, evacuation, information
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because you never know:
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It was a perfect flight
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there is not any indications
that anything can go wrong
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It is right at the very last second
that everything happens.
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The success of the Air France evacuation
had everything to do with speed:
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It took just 90 seconds
to get everyone off the plane.
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That amazingly short length of time
is in fact the target that all crews aimed for.
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Any moment now, the Czech Airlines trainees
will be up against that clock.
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So, the cabin must be clear in 1'30''.
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The hydraulic lift rocks the cabin,
simulating a hard emergency landing.
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Evacuate, evacuate
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Seat-belts off
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Seatbelts off, leave everything
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The evacuation commands are designed
to get people up
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and moving and towards the exit
and out of the airplane
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The slide on this simulator is already extended
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so, to keep the timing realistic,
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flight attendants must wait until they hear
the sound of the slide being inflated
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jump and slide...
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The crew commands to cross you hands
when you are sliding to protect yourself.
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We do what is called looping,
we repeat over and over again
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until we are sure that everybody who can get out,
is out
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The looping helps combat a psychological phenomena
known in the industry as negative panic
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That's when people freeze in their seats
and they don't want to move.
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Instead of getting out and
rushing towards an exit
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they just sit there
and wait for somebody to tell them what to do.
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Research video has shown
that while some passengers freeze...
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...others will do almost anything
to get off the plane as quickly as possible.
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A famous study by the UK Civil Aviation Authority
reveal that desperation and outright panic
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can take hold in seconds
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even in a simulated emergency.
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Evacuation training teaches flight attendants
how to quell that kind of panic:
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By playing the role of the passenger
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they get at least some idea of
how frightening a real emergency would be.
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This simulator is state of the art technology
to train the future cabin crews
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If in real life something happens,
you really know what to do.
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But what happens when disaster strikes in mid-air?
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Getting off a plane at cruising altitude
is not an option
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One harrowing flight from Alaska
reveals why cabin crews have only seconds
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to react to explosive decompression.
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The low atmospheric pressure outside the cabin
poses a risk:
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our bodies are simply not designed
for such extreme altitudes
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Normally, the aircraft protects us.
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Today, the A-320 simulator will show
what happens when that protection fails.
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The next topic is the rapid compression.
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When the oxygen masks are dropping down
you have to use them immediately
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The passenger's cabin is pressurized
so that means that at cruising altitude
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there is a higher pressure
inside the cabin than outside
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We are climbing to cruising altitude
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Any breach in the fuselage at cruising altitude
causes an instant depressurization
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leading to a scene that would and look and sound
something like this
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Something happens
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Take the masks and use them
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It could be caused by a window, blowing out
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and you could have a door, opening
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It could be caused by a propeller,
coming through the fuselage
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There is any number of reasons that could cause it
but it is a rapid loss of cabin pressure.
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Oxygen masks are critical:
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as most of the air in the cabin,
it is sucked out by difference in pressure
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Above the heads of the passengers,
there is a chemical generator.
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If it pulled down
any mask is connected to the chemical generator
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The generator will start
and produces 100% oxygen for approx 12..14 minutes
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If all goes well,
15 minutes of oxygen buys the pilots enough time
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to descend to an altitude
where the masks are no longer needed.
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For us, it is important to know the shock
and the masks are falling down
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and to react to put it on
try to give the information to the passengers
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Pull the masks down and use them
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Rapid decompression emergencies
are extremely rare
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affecting less than 1/1000,000 commercial flights
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In June, 1983, Reeve Aleutian Flight 8
became one of those rare flights
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10 passengers are flying from Cold Bay, Alaska
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we were headed to Seattle
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It was a beautiful day, it was clear,
no turbulence
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highly unusual...
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In the cockpit, Captain James Gibson and his crew
have noticed something unusual as well
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Not with the weather, but with their plane
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Do you hear that, Gary
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I do
I am not sure
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I noticed that the vibration
that I was feeling in my feet
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and the vibration that was in the glass
was different
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And that's the first time
I had ever come across that
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Please have a look, will you
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As Gibson and Gary Lintner wait
for Moose Laurin to report back
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the vibrations become more pronounced.
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I did look up and down
seeing my control yoke, shaking
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I turned to James and I said:
Jesus, look at this
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James and I were looking to each other
across the cockpit
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and finally he says:
Screw this, let's turn around
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The engineer said: I want you to come back and
check the #4 engine to see if you can see anything
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And just as I looked out the window,
the engine went
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As the prop came off, I thought:
Holy crap
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It is going to kill me
It is going to cut me in two
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but, it flew forward and then, it came back
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and slapped the engine
it went underneath
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The propeller tears a hole
in the bottom of the plane
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Things were start to fly around
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Anything that wasn't tightened down
would be heading towards the hole in the fuselage
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disappearing very quickly
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I grabbed to hold the cargo-net and
looked down at my foot
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My heart dropped to my feet
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Fear just ran through me.
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I looked straight down with my foot over a hole
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Straight down over the ocean
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I can actually to this day see the ocean,
that view
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The colour, the white caps
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The hole is more than 0.5 meter wide
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That scared the crap on me
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The gash in the fuselage
has caused an explosive decompression.
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That caused the cockpit to get all foggy
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There is almost no sound,
your ear drum will pop
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So, when you try to breath
you end up getting light headed
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and you can actually pass out
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It is a little dis-concerning
because the fog and it is quiet
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You think:
Jesus, am I dead, or not?
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Depending on what altitude you are at
depending on how explosive the decompression is
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you may have slightly longer than at other times
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but you will eventually die from lack of oxygen.
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Junior flight attendant Victoria Fredenhagen
springs into action.
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After the explosions
I wasn't sure of what had happened
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I grabbed the oxygen walk-around bottle
put that on
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Jim and I got our mask on
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and within seconds,
Moose came to the cockpit door and said
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Holy crap, we just lost #4 propeller
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The rupture in the fuselage
has damaged critical flight controls
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The crew needs to descend to a lower altitude
where there is more oxygen
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but the yoke is slow to respond.
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It felt like the yoke was in concrete
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It just felt solid as a concrete block.
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Calm down, just a second
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Jim saw that
the AUTOPILOT DISCONNECT lights were ON
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and he reached over
and turned the AUTOPILOT back on again
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that was probably one of the smartest things
that anybody ever did
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The AUTOPILOT can do what the pilots could not:
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Steer the plane
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We're descending to 10,000 ft
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It's a struggle, but they finally get
their Electra L188 down to 10,000 ft
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Okay, stable?
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Thank God
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The passengers are no longer in danger of hypoxia.
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It is now safe to remove your masks.
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There was no real emergency,
because we could sense that everything was good.
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Everybody fine back here?
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there is of course adrenaline
running at that point
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It just felt good
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I think it was surreal,
because we were okay
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Reeve Aleution makes it to safety
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The close call is a good example of
to do their role all cabin crews play
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When you become a flight attendant,
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you perform a balancing act
every time you go to work
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because the passengers look at you
as a service provider
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which is what you are, you are supposed
to be gracious and kind and helpful
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and yet, lurking in the background is
always the fact that something might happen
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and you may have to introduce
your safety skills
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At the Czech Airlines Training CENTER...
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just we will practice the most complicated case,
firefighting during the inflight service
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...the team of young flight attendants
is ready to test
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what may be the most crucial safety skill of all:
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Fighting fire
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Fire is very frightening on an airplane
because there is no way to go
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If you have a house fire
you can go outside, you can get away from the fire
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You can't do that on an airplane
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And you can't call the fire department
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The cabin crew must respond in seconds
or face an unstoppable inferno.
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The A-320 simulator
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Service is in progress,
a wonderful meal today
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Meal-service training is about
to get a lot more exiting
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thanks to an automated smoke generator
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We can simulate the inflight fire,
using smoke in the cabin
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We can chose the place, e.g. inside the lavatory
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inside the galley, under the seat
or in the overhead compartment.
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As wisps of smoke start to appear in the cabin...
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...the crew springs into action,
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clearing the isle and grabbing
the protective smoke-hood and fire extinguisher
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that are stored on all A-320s
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It is very important to start the corporation
between cabin attendants and flight crew members
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Let's say that the first cabin attendant
will start fire fighting procedures
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the second cabin attendant
will call the flight crew members
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Captain, there is a fire in the cabin
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and the other cabin attendant
will take care about passengers
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to get them to breath through something
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so that you are filtering some of
the smoke and toxic particles out.
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The experience inside is very realistic
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It is very difficult
to orientate in the smoke in the cabin
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and see people around
and try to extinguish the fire
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If putting out a simulated fire
in a simulated plane is difficult
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imagine facing the real thing at 30,000 ft.
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June, 1983
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All is not well aboard Air Canada Flight 797
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The Air Canada DC-9 was a watershed accident
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41 passengers are beginning to suffocate.
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The aircraft was at cruise altitude
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and there was smoke discovered,
coming from one of the rear washrooms.
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The smoke is getting thicker,
but the crew can't find the source
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incredibly dirty smoke
that was really irritating your throat
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You had to take really small bites of breath
otherwise you would choke
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I was crying and scared,
I wasn't hysterical
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The gentleman who was sitting next to me
explained to me that
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if I would not cry,
and if I would not breath so fast
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that it would conserve the oxygen
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and not worry that the flight-attendants
they know how to handle these sort of situations.
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The crew may lack the more advanced fire training
of today's crews
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but the Flight 797's attendants know to
hand out wet towels
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to help filter the smoke.
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There is no ventilation,
or little ventilation
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and you cannot open a window or a door
to let the smoke out.
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In the cockpit,
the pilots have managed to re-route the flight
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and they are preparing
for an emergency landing in Cincinnati.
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In 1983,
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it is not standard procedure to instruct
passengers how to open the emergency doors
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but in this case,
the flight attendants take the initiative.
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From the time that the smoke was discovered
until the aircraft touched down in Cincinnati
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I believe was 17 minutes,
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which was pretty remarkable when you consider
that they had to find an airport to land in
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When we touched the ground,
I assumed that we are more safe now.
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Now, let's get out of this airplane
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But then, smoke is filling the cabin
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Getting off the aircraft suddenly seems more
difficult than any one could have imagined
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I had to get out of my seat
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and I remember putting my
hands up on someone's neck
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and it was like waiting in a line
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00:27:33,948 --> 00:27:37,674
and I knew that was one line,
I didn't want to wait very long.
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Sergio Bennetti swings open a cabin door
of the smoke filled Air Canada DC-9
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He helps gasping passengers escape.
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Passengers struggle to find their way out,
even with the doors open.
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the exits are all but invisible
the smoke is too thick.
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00:28:12,766 --> 00:28:14,766
I saw a light
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It was the door that had opened,
someone had opened the door
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ran to the door and
I just put my face out so that I could breath
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Passengers who have found the exits
slide of the wing and stumble to safety.
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00:28:31,425 --> 00:28:35,229
On the ground, flight attendants direct passengers
out of harm's way
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Get off the way...
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Fire rescue vehicles surround the plane
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00:28:47,573 --> 00:28:50,370
Before everyone can get off...
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...the entire cabin ignites
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Something called
FLASH OVER occurred
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which is what happens
when the fire builds up
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and then the oxygen comes in from the outside.
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Captain Donald Cameron
and First Officer Claude Ouimet make it off
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00:29:11,409 --> 00:29:15,221
We knew there were people in the airplane
unfortunately at that point
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The cabin fire breaks
through the top of the fuselage
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Black smoke can be seen for kilometres
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Flight attendant Laura Kayama begins to count.
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I will remember these words forever
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She told us to line up,
so that she could count the survivors
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00:29:39,175 --> 00:29:42,971
If there were survivors,
obviously there were dead.
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00:29:45,753 --> 00:29:51,659
There were 46 people on boarding
incl. the crew and 20 people didn’t make it out
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00:29:52,472 --> 00:29:55,573
It is just a shame we didn’t get everybody off,
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it still bothers me.
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00:30:02,590 --> 00:30:06,863
When the fire department and the investigators
went into the aircraft afterwards
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they found passengers on their hands and knees
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00:30:09,770 --> 00:30:12,948
Aft of the over-wing exits, facing aft
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So, clearly they had crawled back there,
looking for exits...
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...and didn’t find them.
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00:30:17,899 --> 00:30:20,371
Maybe because they didn’t know where they were
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00:30:20,402 --> 00:30:24,314
And in those days, they weren’t marked well.
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00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:30,465
You need to have a rough idea how many feet it is
to your nearest exit and to an alternate exit
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00:30:30,489 --> 00:30:34,198
And how you are going to get there
if the cabin is full of smoke
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You just need to be aware.
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00:30:37,934 --> 00:30:41,139
The tragedy of Air Canada Flight 797
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leads to significant safety improvements
in the airline industry.
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We’ve got floor level lighting
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We got automatic fire extinguishers
in the washrooms
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00:30:51,383 --> 00:30:56,015
We’ve got huge improvements in
flight attendant training in firefighting.
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00:30:56,039 --> 00:31:01,109
The cabin crew’s impromptu to decision to
show passengers how to open the over-wing exits...
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00:31:01,133 --> 00:31:04,054
...is adopted as a routine safety measure.
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00:31:05,022 --> 00:31:09,030
It was a huge accident for us
with respect to improvements in the industry
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and we have saved lives, because of it.
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00:31:12,890 --> 00:31:18,194
A better fire training means that today’s
flight attendants get to actually feel the heat.
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00:31:18,218 --> 00:31:22,725
We need to train cabin attendants
how to fight a real fire.
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00:31:22,749 --> 00:31:26,999
That is why the fire fighting simulator
is important for the training.
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00:31:28,061 --> 00:31:30,405
The fire fighting trainer doesn’t move
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00:31:30,429 --> 00:31:34,229
It is made of solid steel
and is completely fire proof
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00:31:37,909 --> 00:31:41,127
It can simulate three types of on board fire:
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a galley fire,
overhead compartment fire
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00:31:45,136 --> 00:31:49,721
and fire from below the floor,
one that might originate in the cargo hole.
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00:31:53,510 --> 00:31:54,990
For some trainees
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00:31:55,015 --> 00:31:59,455
it is the first time they have had to fight
a cabin fire while wearing restrictive gear
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00:31:59,479 --> 00:32:02,385
For new employees it is
important to realize
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00:32:02,410 --> 00:32:06,120
that the inflight fire is
a very difficult situation.
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00:32:08,159 --> 00:32:11,753
The drill is carried out
with a water filled extinguisher
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00:32:14,495 --> 00:32:15,963
On an actual flight,
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they’d be using even more effective
halon gas extinguishers
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00:32:22,340 --> 00:32:25,331
Don’t be afraid, you can get closer
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00:32:28,573 --> 00:32:30,573
Good experience!
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00:32:34,758 --> 00:32:38,626
It is the kind of training
Barbara Dunn wishes she’d had
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00:32:38,790 --> 00:32:42,037
when she began her career as a flight attendant.
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00:32:42,061 --> 00:32:46,193
When I was hired in 1971,
we had no simulators at all.
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00:32:46,217 --> 00:32:48,279
Our fire fighting training consisted of
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firing off a water extinguisher
in your garbage can and that’s it.
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00:32:54,239 --> 00:32:59,327
It has changed dramatically,
the training process is comprehensive now
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Each flight attendant will face the flames
before moving on...
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00:33:12,292 --> 00:33:15,751
...to the most physically demanding drill of all:
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Water survival training.
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00:33:18,995 --> 00:33:23,385
We need to train all cabin attendants
as well as flight crew members :
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What to do in case of ditching?
i.e. landing on the water
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00:33:28,893 --> 00:33:32,963
More than 2/3 of the earth's surface
is covered in water.
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00:33:33,338 --> 00:33:38,612
When a plane goes down at sea
passengers face an incredibly challenging ordeal
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00:33:38,636 --> 00:33:41,478
those who are lucky enough to survive the impact
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00:33:41,502 --> 00:33:44,330
...will then have to survive in the open sea
429
00:33:44,354 --> 00:33:47,385
Wearing a life vest could make all the difference
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00:33:47,410 --> 00:33:50,346
if you know how and when to use it.
431
00:33:50,371 --> 00:33:54,197
You don't want to inflate your vest until
after you have left the aircraft.
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00:33:54,221 --> 00:33:56,760
We don't want the aircraft filling up with water
433
00:33:56,785 --> 00:33:59,893
and you are having your life jacket on,
floating at the top
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00:33:59,917 --> 00:34:03,158
You are not going to be able to dive down
with a life jacket on
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00:34:03,189 --> 00:34:08,774
So, you are really much better off to wait until
you get outside and pull your inflation toggles.
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00:34:09,455 --> 00:34:13,095
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome at this survival training
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The training begins with a quick lesson on how to
safely jump into the water from a ditched plane
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That is important:
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An injured flight attendant
cannot be much help to passengers
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00:34:26,834 --> 00:34:33,613
This position is protecting
your important parts of your body and your head
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00:34:33,638 --> 00:34:36,817
against the sharp objects in the water.
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00:34:53,355 --> 00:34:57,573
Now, we have to keep the energy saving position:
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Cross your arms and legs
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00:35:01,129 --> 00:35:02,324
and bend.
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00:35:02,349 --> 00:35:05,254
Ocean water temperatures can be frigid
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as low as 10 degrees Celsius
across much of the Atlantic.
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00:35:09,825 --> 00:35:14,653
Flight attendants learn to preserve body heat
to ward off hypothermia.
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00:35:14,677 --> 00:35:18,832
and stay in that position as long as necessary
449
00:35:20,996 --> 00:35:25,168
All long haul flights over water
are equipped with life rafts.
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00:35:25,192 --> 00:35:28,043
Some, like this one, are slide rafts:
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evacuation slides that can convert to a raft
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00:35:31,169 --> 00:35:35,231
Please, just now, we will board this slide raft
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00:35:35,966 --> 00:35:38,231
They carry up to 70 people
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00:35:38,255 --> 00:35:43,583
but they are next to useless
if you don't know how to get in quickly and safely
455
00:35:43,607 --> 00:35:46,528
Use all of your red loops
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00:35:47,216 --> 00:35:48,942
In order to be seaworthy,
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00:35:48,967 --> 00:35:53,590
the raft needs sturdy side walls
that rise a meter above the surface
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00:35:53,615 --> 00:35:56,333
Anyone trying to board from the water
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00:35:56,358 --> 00:35:59,997
must negotiate a flimsy fabric ladder
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00:36:00,794 --> 00:36:04,169
They have to be in good shape
to get into a slide raft,
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00:36:04,194 --> 00:36:06,194
or very motivated.
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00:36:06,396 --> 00:36:09,661
Even with help from those already on board
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00:36:09,685 --> 00:36:12,560
it is a physically demanding challenge
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all the more reason to put flight attendants
through it on a regular basis
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All employees they usually say to me that
the practical training is more difficult for them
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00:36:23,724 --> 00:36:25,724
than they expected.
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00:36:27,661 --> 00:36:30,051
Though water ditchings are rare
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00:36:30,075 --> 00:36:33,762
perhaps the most famous aviation emergency
of all time
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ended with passengers fearing for their lives
on the open water:
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January, 2009
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US Airways Flight 1549 departs
New York's LaGuardia Airport
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There are 150 passengers on board,
bound for Charlotte North Carolina
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The aircraft took off, uneventfully
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and very shortly after take off
they lost all engines (as a result of birds)
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I caught something in the corner of my eye,
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slightly to our right, but still ahead of us
was a line of birds
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and they were very very close
too close for us to manoeuvre around
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It went fast, we were on top of them.
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All of a sudden, there was a gigantic boom
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It seemed like it stopped in mid-air
like you hit a brick wall
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All of a sudden, somebody said:
The left engine is on fire
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We don't want to roll
both of them rolling back
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All of the engines rolled back to idle
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There was very little time to warn the cabin
There was no time, actually,
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The flight crew were busy
trying to control the airplane
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They were trying to figure out
where they were going to land.
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After quickly assessing the situation
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Captain Sullenberger and First Officer Skiles
realize that,
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without power they are not going to make it
to any nearby airport.
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Ditch in the Hudson
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I thought to myself:
Great, the Hudson was our best opportunity
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It was really the only thing in sight
where we could land
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Let's go!
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Put the flaps on
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Brace for impact
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What does he mean,
'Brace for impact' ?
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I had no idea about how to brace for impact.
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You need to be aware of your brace position.
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In many accidents,
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the cabin crew are trying desperately to get
the passengers into the braced position
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but because they haven't read the safety card
they don't know what that means.
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Get your heads down
and stay down
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Proper 'brace' position is knees together,
feet flat on the floor
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Body bend as far forward as possible
with arms wrapped under the legs
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or braced against the seat in front of you.
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Your body is going to be thrown forward
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so if you can get yourself
into that position beforehand
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the amount of movement is going to be reduced
and the level of injury will be less.
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In the cabin
the passengers prepare for the inevitable
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All the passengers really started pulling together
and somebody yelled out as we were going down
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Are you ready at the doors?
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The folks at the doors said:
'We are ready'
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Clay Presley does what all passengers should
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He stays calm and tries to think ahead.
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I started thinking about
before we are going to crash
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I need to figure out where the exit rows are
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If the water comes in
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you need to be able to hold your breath
long enough to get to those 4 or 5 rows
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and get the doors open if you can.
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But before anyone can escape,
they must first survive a high speed impact...
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...into freezing cold water
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US 1549 speeds towards the Hudson River
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It looked like the airplane was going right
to the bottom of the Hudson River
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All that solid water
cascading over the windshield.
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It was like a tornado
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Pieces of the plane were being torn apart
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Some people were thrown around pretty good,
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Then , the airplane popped up
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and it was sort of rocking in the waves
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In an instant, the $75,000,000 plane
has become an unlikely boat ,
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floating down the Hudson River
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It is now filling with freezing water
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That water was cold
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It was very cold
your feet were freezing
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You land in the Hudson in the middle of the winter
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the water is going to be very cold
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and you are going to suffer
from hypothermia very quickly.
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Your feet and your hands will get numb
They are going to be useless.
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Passengers nearest the exits open the doors
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I just jumped up very quickly
and started making my way to the emergency door
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and so I worked my way out onto the wing
just a few steps to start with.
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Fortunately, they had slide rafts,
rather than just slides
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so what they were able to do
was evacuate passengers into the slide rafts
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At the back of the plane,
water continues pouring in.
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Flight attendants direct passengers forward.
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Go over the seats if you have to
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We are actually in the water
up to our knees, it was absolutely freezing cold
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In every part of your body,
it ached to the bone
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Move forward
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We were very confident
there was nobody left on the airplane.
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Since the plane came down near mid town Manhattan
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it is not long before rescuers are on the scene.
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I saw the first ferry
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and I could see the wheelhouse
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I felt like: Okay, we are really going to be okay
that was a sight of relief
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In the end,
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all 150 passengers and the entire crew
are brought to safety
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another example of how serious aviation accidents
often end well.
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Absolutely, accidents are survivable
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The next time a passenger gets on an airplane,
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I want him to be aware of the surroundings
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I want them to know where they are sitting
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how they get to an exit
if they have to
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You also need to do your seat-belt up so tight
that it is uncomfortable
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That is the only thing
that will keep you in your seat
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and keep you restrained properly
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Seats at the front of the plane are often
close to the point of impact
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when a plane hits the ground.
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leading many experts to believe
the safest seat during an accident
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is one near the back of the plane.
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Obviously sitting near an exit is a good idea
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but that exit may not be useable
in this particular scenario
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So, I would say rather than choosing
where you are going to sit
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be aware of where you are sitting.
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For flight crews and passengers alike
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there is one more important statistic:
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The odds of dying in a plane crash
are incredibly small:
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less than 1/10,000,000
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That means that this Czech Airline's flight-crew
and every other crew around the world
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will almost certainly never need to draw
on their well honed safety-skills.
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but if disaster does strike
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passengers can rest easy knowing their cabin crew
has the skill to get them out alive.
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Narrator
Stephen Bogaert
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Subtitles
Rein Croonen
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