Passengers stuck on plane wing on emergency
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-541949...
This is an interesting scenario which I haven't give much thought to in the past.
In an emergency on a plane, you have the smaller emergency exits on the wing. If you exit onto the wing, I would have thought there would be an exit slide of some sort.
In this case, there is no exit slide and you are expected to jump up to 2 metres. That's not straight forward for everyone.
This is an interesting scenario which I haven't give much thought to in the past.
In an emergency on a plane, you have the smaller emergency exits on the wing. If you exit onto the wing, I would have thought there would be an exit slide of some sort.
In this case, there is no exit slide and you are expected to jump up to 2 metres. That's not straight forward for everyone.
leef44 said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-541949...
This is an interesting scenario which I haven't give much thought to in the past.
In an emergency on a plane, you have the smaller emergency exits on the wing. If you exit onto the wing, I would have thought there would be an exit slide of some sort.
In this case, there is no exit slide and you are expected to jump up to 2 metres. That's not straight forward for everyone.
On a 737, there's usually big arrows down the wing towards the flaps at the back. The flaps are meant to be extended to allow you to slide down to the ground. In this case, it seems the engines were stopped before the flaps extended & when the hydraulic pumps stopped the flaps were stuck.This is an interesting scenario which I haven't give much thought to in the past.
In an emergency on a plane, you have the smaller emergency exits on the wing. If you exit onto the wing, I would have thought there would be an exit slide of some sort.
In this case, there is no exit slide and you are expected to jump up to 2 metres. That's not straight forward for everyone.
Eric Mc said:
The only "exit slides" are located at the main passenger doors.
The smaller escape hatches above the wings do not have any sort of slide attached. Passengers exit out onto the wings and may have to jump off the wing - usually on the trailing edge of the wind.
Thanks for the wonderful insight Eric, is that post for the people who haven't been on a plane before? Or do you just enjoy stating the bleeding obvious. The smaller escape hatches above the wings do not have any sort of slide attached. Passengers exit out onto the wings and may have to jump off the wing - usually on the trailing edge of the wind.
Wills2 said:
Eric Mc said:
The only "exit slides" are located at the main passenger doors.
The smaller escape hatches above the wings do not have any sort of slide attached. Passengers exit out onto the wings and may have to jump off the wing - usually on the trailing edge of the wind.
Thanks for the wonderful insight Eric, is that post for the people who haven't been on a plane before? Or do you just enjoy stating the bleeding obvious. The smaller escape hatches above the wings do not have any sort of slide attached. Passengers exit out onto the wings and may have to jump off the wing - usually on the trailing edge of the wind.
I noticed in the news article it said that ""A lot of ladies and older people couldn't jump off,"
I can see that older people would struggle to lower themselves down the engine nacelle or similar, but is there something special about some women that stops their arms and legs working? Seems like a very odd statement.
I can see that older people would struggle to lower themselves down the engine nacelle or similar, but is there something special about some women that stops their arms and legs working? Seems like a very odd statement.
Flooble said:
I noticed in the news article it said that ""A lot of ladies and older people couldn't jump off,"
I can see that older people would struggle to lower themselves down the engine nacelle or similar, but is there something special about some women that stops their arms and legs working? Seems like a very odd statement.
Girls aren't as brave. Or stupid. I can see that older people would struggle to lower themselves down the engine nacelle or similar, but is there something special about some women that stops their arms and legs working? Seems like a very odd statement.
alangla said:
On a 737, there's usually big arrows down the wing towards the flaps at the back. The flaps are meant to be extended to allow you to slide down to the ground. In this case, it seems the engines were stopped before the flaps extended & when the hydraulic pumps stopped the flaps were stuck.
requiring the pilots to make alterations to the configuration of the aircraft to Teddy Lop said:
requiring the pilots to make alterations to the configuration of the aircraft to facilitate make possible the emergency exit procedure seems an optomistic definition of emergency?
It's limited scenarios though. - Water landing - you are jumping into water (and not from a great height) so no issue.
- Proper crash landing - it's optimistic to imagine the wings are still attached in the first place. More so the landing gear.
- Just landed but need to evacuate quickly - flaps will already be down from the landing
Flooble said:
Hence it was only that they were in the take-off roll and somehow lost all power immediately (?!) that caused the issue.
The crew did exactly what the evac checklist requires: They selected flaps 5 (full), then immediately cut the enginesbut it takes ~20s for the flaps to fully extend, and without engines running the flaps don't have power
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