Andromeda Yelton
On August 22, 1985, a British airplane experienced an engine failure and subsequent fire on the runway. The pilots aborted the takeoff, fire services responded promptly, flight attendants ran the evacuation with heartbreaking heroism - and the incident shocked the world when 55 people died, even though the plane had never left the ground.
In consequence, worldwide, we:
* changed cabin materials to be safer in the event of fire
* added emergency lighting guiding people toward exits
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Andromeda Yelton
The regulations were good but they were not enough; people were shocked and dismayed, and turned that into action.
When you think about how, in the context of the appalling footage from Haneda, no one on the Airbus died, remember that. It was not (only) a miracle. It was the result of disciplined investigation, training, engineering, information sharing, and worldwide cooperation over decades.
So, okay, maybe it was a miracle. But of a fundamentally different kind. /fin
Andromeda Yelton
* updated cabin layouts to make emergency exits more accessible
* conducted research into psychology & human factors affecting aviation incident survival
* recognized that flight attendants are utterly critical to emergency survival, and updated their training accordingly
This expanded on regulations responding to 1960s-era accidents which require (to this day) passenger airplanes to be capable of evacuation within 90 seconds. 2/
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