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Four Injured After Jet Blue Flight Makes Emergency Landing At Long Beach Airport
LONG BEACH (CBSLA.com) — Several people were injured Thursday after a Jet Blue aircraft had to make an emergency landing at Long Beach Airport. Flight 1416 returned to Long Beach at 9:29 a.m., 25 minutes after it took off for Austin, TX. (losangeles.cbslocal.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Historically, far more people are injured by the 'emergency slides' than by simply staying in their seats, except in the vanishingly rare cases of airplane on fire.
I agree 100%, with the numbers… but I take issue with the blanket statement. Of course more people are injured going down a slide than by staying in their seat since there's no risk involved in sitting in your seat. But during a high risk situation like a fire, or imminent fire for that matter, it is a lower risk to evacuate down a slide. It's all about risk management. Case and point: Air Canada DC-9 Flight 797 only 90 seconds after touchdown for the unconfirmed fire to flash over and kill 20+ passengers who didn't make it out the slides in time. Yes, aircraft fires are rare, but in cases with a high potential to become a "rare" statistic, I prefer to be wrong and live with a few broken ankles than dead and wrong.
Forgot link to that Tweet:
http://www.sm-radio.com/twilight-actor-live-tweets-emergency-landing/
http://www.sm-radio.com/twilight-actor-live-tweets-emergency-landing/
Good job guys, little damage to aircraft & excellent job on following through with the emergency check list.
To depressurize the cabin, you need to shut off the source of air for the PACK/S. Then you need to close the applicable engine bleed air valve for that engine that failed as a backup to the fire "T" handle being pulled. Follow the QRH checklist for the necessary abnormal or emergency procedure. Thou the oxygen masks didn't deploy because you have an automatic system & a manual override, the pax masks would of at least supplied clean O2 to the pax. The masks aren't like the flight deck pressure masks but would supply non-toxic O2 versus the toxic fumes from the engine bleed air system as a result of engine failure.
A non-expert =how fire/smoke enters cabin,when engines are fitted in the wings.if enters why not depress the cabin with permitted slowness without losing elevation/height.,so that cabin becomes ,smoke free.
Can I ask what causes the cabin to fill with smoke? And what kind of smoke is it? Is it truly coming from the failed engine? And what is the danger to the passengers (guess that depends on the type of smoke)?