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evacuation slide
noun
An inflatable slide used to evacuate passengers from an aircraft.
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High heels must be taken off as they may tear the evacuation slide".
The three… This month's news of Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who grabbed two beers and fled down his plane's evacuation slide, underscored the importance of….
I have successfully used an evacuation slide four times in test situations for the certification of a new model of airliner.
Then, after declaring that 20 years in the airline industry was enough, he blurted out, "It's been great!" He activated the inflatable evacuation slide at a service exit and left the world of flight attending behind.
This month's news of Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who grabbed two beers and fled down his plane's evacuation slide, underscored the importance of having access to effective egress.
By David Owen This month's news of Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who grabbed two beers and fled down his plane's evacuation slide, underscored the importance of having access to effective egress.
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Airport medical personnel treated the injured passengers for bruises, minor sprains and friction burns they received while sliding down the aircraft's inflatable evacuation slides.
In fact this instruction is to put the inflatable evacuation slides on to automatic, so they shoot out if the door is opened.
Larger aircraft are usually taller, with longer evacuation slides, so firefighters are trained to park their trucks further away to avoid interference.
The evacuation was also aided by some passengers who by and large remained calm on an airplane that was on fire, filled with smoke, its tail section broken off, with several of its emergency evacuation slides malfunctioning.
As a result, it carried four inflatable devices meant to be available as evacuation slides and as rafts, and the two that worked were a safe haven for 64 passengers and crew members; without the rafts, some of them would probably have died in the 41-degree water, board experts said.
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