[nagdu] Emergency plane evacuation

[Margo and Elmo]

that's true. i was told the same thing about the mask.  it does work because 
I did try a mask on my second dog. A flight attendant and I were curious to 
see how it would work.

margoa nd Elmo
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <eliza.l.cooper at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Emergency plane evacuation


> Hi,
>   The school I went to did talk about airplane evacuation in
> training, and there were a couple of key things they mentioned.  If
> the cabin loses air pressure and the masks come down from above you,
> there is always an extra one in every row (for a kid, e.g.).  I've
> started making sure I'm not in a row with a baby or toddler, because
> your dog would use the extra mask.  You'd put one of the masks on your
> dog (I don't know how well this would work, I'm just saying what they
> said), then you would get to an exit.  Before getting on the slide,
> you would put your dog in your lap paws up so they wouldn't scratch
> and break the slide.  That's all I got - hth.
>   Eliza
>
> On 1/16/09, Marsha <queen.marsha.lindsey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tracy,
>> Very interesting question. I have flown lately too, and this same 
>> question
>> has crossed my mind. I wonder if this is something that the schools would 
>> be
>> able to answer for us.
>> marsha
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
>> Behalf
>> Of Tracy Carcione
>> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:54 PM
>> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [nagdu] Emergency plane evacuation
>>
>> Listening to news reports of yesterday's emergency plane evacuation in 
>> the
>> Hudson River, I was wondering how such things work with a guide dog.  The
>> news said people were holding onto the plane's wing, and some got soaking
>> wet.  I was wondering how I would have done it with Ben.
>> The plane talks always mention a slide.  I've wondered about that, too.
>> I know, some years back, some Federationists did a mock plane evacuation
>> to demonstrate that blind people could do it as efficiently as sighted
>> people.  I'm sure I could do it too.  I'd just like to have some idea,
>> beforehand if possible, what it's like so I could figure out a good way 
>> to
>> work it with Ben.
>> Anyone have any more experience with it than I do?
>> I wonder if it might be useful to arrange a mock evacuation, with guide
>> dogs, maybe during convention or something?  I know Margo and Julie P 
>> have
>> been doing a lot of work in New York, figuring out how emergency workers
>> could work with guide dog users during a chemical contamination 
>> emergency.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>
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