Since aisles are small and flight attendants must be able to move quickly in an emergency, airlines usually require that flight attendants are height and weight proportionate.
To the Editor: Regarding the article about in-flight heart emergencies "Defibrillators: Airline Update" (July 30): Before trying to send EKG's via satellite using seat-back phones, I suggest that the industry first make sure the phones are working and everyone is clear on how to make a call.
The goal of this retrospective study was to document medically relevant emergencies in airline passengers from 2002 to 2007 on board European aircraft.
Small steps in an airline emergency can improve your odds.
Mrs. Traoré is the widow of one of roughly 60 Muslim victims — cooks, businessmen, emergency responders and airline passengers — believed to have died on 9/11.
"Being grossly overweight does have a bearing on reflexes and can impair agility required to perform the emergency functions," the airline claimed.
Schaap's experiences are so well known that another friend, in a different airline emergency, "told his wife that my life was flashing before his eyes".
For corporate America, the spigots in Washington appear tantalizingly open -- with $40 billion in emergency money, the airline rescue package and other economic stimulus measures that could amount to an additional $40 billion to $60 billion.
For corporate America, the spigots in Washington appear tantalizingly open: $40 billion in emergency money, the airline rescue package and a variety of other economic stimulus measures that Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, has suggested could amount to another $40 billion to $60 billion.
He works as a waiter to pollute the food of smart restaurants, uses his job as a projectionist to cut subliminal pornographic frames into Disney pictures (one of Guy Grand's tricks), recycles the fat extracted from rich women during liposuction to manufacture expensive beauty soap and redesigns airline emergency books to hilariously offensive effect.
