填空题 Emergency airplane evacuations happen more often than most people think: about once every 11 days in the U.S., according to a recent report by the National Transportation Safety Board. Some situations are more dire than others, of course, as when the plane is on fire, but in many cases, the biggest challenge of an evacuation can be the airplane slide. However, it is likely that some of the injuries happened during the evacuation-not the initial crash. Even in controlled drills, accidents are common. So, in the unlikely event that you have to escape from a plane on an inflatable slide, here are some tips.
{{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}Have a plan:
Don't wait until a flight attendant is shrieking at you to "Get out!" to decide what you're going to do.
{{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}Have another plan:
Your fellow passengers often have trouble opening the exit hatches-it's not easy, for one thing, and even flight attendants often run into trouble.
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If all hell does break loose, remember that one of the deadliest mistakes passengers make is to lunge for their overhead luggage. And yet, even if the cabin is full of smoke, passengers will almost invariably reach up to get their briefcases and garment bags.
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Another big problem usually happens at the top of the slide. People hesitate or try to sit down before sliding. If everyone would jump instead, the evacuation could go 50% faster.
{{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}Then get out of the way:
Just like on the playground, the area below the slide is not a good place to hang out. If you are the first passenger out, then you should help other people get off. Otherwise, you should get out of the way.
Congratulations! You've survived an emergency airplane evacuation. Now prepare to reflect on your experience-for hours. After an evacuation, even a successful one, passengers often have to spend hours in limbo, waiting for the authorities to release them back into civilization, often due to bureaucratic or legal paranoia.
A. Since a fire can burn through the fuselage on an airplane in 90 seconds, faster is much, much better. When everything works right, slides are built to handle 70 passengers per minute.
B. Smoke can also make your first-choice exit suddenly unusable. So instead of reading the Sky Mall catalog while you're waiting for the plane to take off, it would be wise to come up with two escape ways.
C. A lot of injuries happen when people hit the ground and sprain an ankle or break a leg because they came in out of control. Also, women should avoid wearing spiked heels and pantyhose when they fly.
Pantyhose can melt onto the skin in the heat of a plane fire.
D. Pile-ups at the bottom of the slide can be brutal-and can also make the slide much steeper for everyone else coming down.
E. Chloe, 24, was a passenger on the British Airways flight. "I got to the door, and I realized I was holding a bamboo hat-and just thought, what am I doing rescuing a hat from a crashed plane?" she told the Coventry Telegraph.
F. Aviation safety experts, even the most jaded ones, count the rows to their nearest exits whenever they sit down on a plane. They know that their brain will not work well under extreme duress, and their eyes will not see well in thick smoke, so they need to have a sense of their best escape routes before anything goes wrong.