In March 2023, Southwest Airlines flight 3923, a Boeing 737 MAX en route to Fort Lauderdale from Havana, Cuba, made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff when the cabin began to fill with smoke secondary to an engine failure and …
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 …