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 Since 2006, 626 events involving smoke, fire, or extreme heat in aircraft cabins from those batteries have occurred. 🕖 …
🕖 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 …
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 fly. However, during a recent flight down the West Coast of the United States, …
🕖 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, …
🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes The emergency evacuation of Japan Airline flight 516 January, 2024 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67865132) after it caught fire from a collision with another aircraft during landing is a representative example of an unplanned evacuation. They occur with little …