[nabs-l] airlines and federation history

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Josh and everyone,

    Not all sighted people could  open those exit row doors either. All the 
instructions in the World will be of used if a blind or sighted passenger 
seated in that row cannot open the door. Personally I'd like to see aircraft 
cabins designed so all exits are free of passengers killing this whole 
issue. There are blind people capable of performing this task successfully. 
Read about one such incident in Walking Alone and Marching Together. 
Fortunately this will be a non-issue for us when we fly to Dallas in July.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
To: "nabs-l list" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:56 PM
Subject: [nabs-l] airlines and federation history


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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