It was not surprising, after the recent crash landing in London, how easily the flight attendants directed passengers and crew onto the emergency exit slides.
All 170 people on board escaped unhurt, apart from some minor injuries from exit slides, and an investigation into the cause continues.
Mr. Slater snagged two beers and popped the emergency exit chute, sliding out of the parked airliner like James Bond on a tight budget.
Understanding how pliable materials interact with the world around them can help scientists predict all sorts of interesting phenomena, from how volcano lava might flow on Mars to the speediest shape for an airplane's inflatable emergency-exit slide.
To inspire fed-up employees everywhere: The JetBlue flight attendant who snapped at a rude passenger yesterday and, as the New York Times reports, "unleashed a profanity-laden tirade on the public address system, pulled the emergency-exit chute, slid off the plane and fled Kennedy International Airport".
That's the clear message of flight attendant Steven Slater's emergence as a "working-class hero," after he threw his job away with a tirade against passengers and a slide down an exit chute.
She got up and was pushed along the aisle and out an exit, then slid down an inflated slide into a life raft.
Slowly, one by one, they exited the slide, making sure to avoid eye contact with me.
Even so, he will have to bide his time until the right exit way slides briefly open.
