Although commercial airline crashes are rare, worldwide a commercial aircraft has an emergency evacuation every 11 days. If you’re a passenger involved in an emergency evacuation, it’s likely the flight crew’s first actual evacuation too, despite their extensive training. What can you do to be a How to Be a Better Able-Bodied Passenger and Better Prepared Cabin Crew and be useful during an emergency?
Lithium-ion batteries are ubiquitous in personal electronic devices and now causing fires. Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 2 minutes Since 2006, 626 events involving smoke, fire, or extreme heat in aircraft cabins from …
Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Smoke escape hoods that depend on filtering are essentially useless in an oxygen-deprived environment. In a structure fire environment, oxygen is burned off and hot combustion …
🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes REPUBLISHED 17 Feb 2025, Original Publication 25 Dec 2024 Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243, an Embraer 190, crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25th, 2024. There were 62 …
BLUF: If you are providing care to a commercial airline passenger with nausea and vomiting, consider having them “sniff” an alcohol prep pad as first line treatment. In a review of 49,100 in-flight medical emergencies on commercial airlines, 6% included …
Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading Time, 2 minutes I was starting to wonder if any commercial airline seat cushions were still usable as flotation devices since they’re never briefed on routes I tend to …
🕖 Reading Time, 10 minutes Although commercial airline crashes are rare, worldwide a commercial aircraft has an emergency evacuation every 11 days. If you’re a passenger involved in an emergency evacuation, it’s likely the flight crew’s first actual evacuation too, …