[nabs-l] airlines and federation history

[RJ Sandefur]

My councilor was a former flight attendent, and she told me they hand you 
the instructions in braille.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] airlines and federation history


> Josh,
>
> Anyone who sits in an exit row better take the responsibility seriously. 
> If you think I would sit in an exit row and try to figure out how to open 
> the door only after the
> crash, you don't think very much of me or other fellow blind people. 
> Whenever I sat in an exit row, I simply asked for certain how it opened 
> when the flight attendant
> came by at the beginning of the flight and asked if I new how to use the 
> oxygen mask.  It wasn't rocket science.  However, I say again, nobody ever 
> said that all
> blind persons should feel they should sit in an exit row.  Further, while 
> I feel I would have likely executed my responsibilities as well as the 
> average person they would
> put there in my place, considering there was no real screening, that does 
> not mean that the airlines would not have the right to say I was unfit for 
> some other reason.
> This is fairly irrelevant anyway since this isn't an issue right now, but 
> I can't believe you would truly think that a responsible blind person 
> would not plan ahead if
> taking on such a responsibility.  I also recall that at that time, it was 
> common to hear flight attendants explaining to sighted persons how the 
> exit worked.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve Jacobson
>
> On Thu, 20 May 2010 13:56:28 -0400, Josh wrote:
>
>>Hi
>
>>Here's my thoughts on the whole exit row thing. If I'm sitting in the
>>exit row and the plane crashes or begins to crash; I don't want to be
>>sitting there trying to figure out the several steps needed to open that
>>exit row door. I'd rather have a sighted person there, who can quickly
>>read the directions and get that door open as quickly as possible.
>>Rather than me sitting there fiddling around with it all the while
>>insisting oh just hang on a moment I'll get it open, all the while,
>>while I'm fiddling with the doorr, the plane is falling out of the sky,
>>or sinking down into the river. There's some things in my opinion that
>>its just more efficient and in case of an emergency, life-savin, that a
>>sighted person well that I'd say, hey just let someone who can see who
>>knows what they're doing, sit there so they can get the door open in the
>>quickest time possible. the other thing is while you're sitting there
>>trying to fiddle around getting the door open you got a plane full of
>>pannicking people that want out of the plane, so someone comes along
>>shoves you out of the way, gets to the door and  opens it. Then you got
>>a bunch of pissed off people at ya because you didn't move right away.
>
>
>>-- 
>>Josh Kennedy jkenn337 at gmail.com
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