Or as the safety card puts it - "in the event of landing ON water..."
Not sure about fixed wing, but I'm here to tell you that you certainly can in helicopters....
If you ever have to remember this then you probably won't be posting here again about it. Or anything else!You also have to pull down on those masks to activate the oxygen flow.
Worth remembering!
This greek aircrash was probably the one that Miles was referring to. It wasn't that the ground crew didn't hook up the air cylinders - some maintenance work the previous day had required the cabin pressurisation system to be set to manual rather than auto and it wasn't switched back - and the captain didn't notice this in his pre-flight checks. So, the aircraft didn't pressurise at all and when it reached 10,000ft, warnings went off which the captain misinterpreted - and he wasn't aware that the oxygen masks had dropped in the passenger cabin. By the time ground engineers asked the captain to check the pressurisation switch was set to auto, he was a bit zonked from lack of oxygen and didn't understand what they were saying. So, everyone drifted off into unconsciousness (they were all technically still alive when the plane hit the ground) after their 12/15 mins of oxygen was used up and the plane eventually crashed when it ran out of fuel - probably all very peaceful for them really. Except for one poor cabin steward (deep sea diver so probably used to using less oxygen) - he managed to stay alive by using 4 portable oxygen tanks on board - and was seen by the greek air force pilots at the controls (he was also a trainee pilot) just before it crashed after circling for 2-3 hours - he couldn't communicate with the ground as the radio frequency was still set to the take-off airport and he couldn't/didn't know how to change it. Can't have been much fun for him particularly as his fiancee was also a stewardess on board.
Economist Magazine Oct 2006 :"In the entire history of aviation the number of widebody aircraft to successfully land on water is zero"
All these lifejackets and demonstrations are to make you feel good.
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