Tag: aircraft evacuation
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Overhead Bins Could Be Hard Locked During Flights In Near Future If Passengers Continue To Disregard Evacuation Rules
A new study revealed four in 10 passengers would not leave their baggage behind in the event of an emergency evacuation. A concerning trend of passengers retrieving baggage instead of evacuating aircraft in an emergency is concerning the aviation industry. A new campaign from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), entitled “Save a Life, Not…
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Today In 1983, The Flight Landed Safely But Turned Into An Inferno 90 Seconds Later Claiming 23 Lives
On June 2, 1983, Air Canada Flight 797 became the center of one of aviation’s most important safety disasters. In a tragic twist, the pilots successfully landed the aircraft after an in-flight fire, but a deadly flash fire erupted just moments after touchdown, killing 23 people who had survived the emergency landing. The accident would…
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