[nagdu] Fw: Emergency plane evacuation

[Garry and Joy Relton]

Hi all,

I was one of those who participated in the mock emergency exit from the
plane in Baltimore some years ago. I believe that I was the only one with a
dog guide. Here's how we did it and how the airline believed it should work.
It worked fine. When you are instructed to proceed to the exit you do that
much as you would board and disembark from a plane. We exited from an exit
over the wing and took the slide down. When I came to the open door and put
Zenith at sit at my side and sat on the floor on the door frame and put my
feet over the edge pointing the way we were going to slide then I sort of
half picked up and half coaxed him onto my lap and we slid down the slide
together. The flight attendant did interfere and try to pull me to do it
another way and I simply politely thanked him and said that I had it under
control. That's what I would have done in real life. Understanding that I
wasn't disrespecting the emergency procedure or the personnel but simply
that I didn't need him to either grab my arm or the dog because it wasn't
going to help me put the dog on my lap. The Hudson river incident was
different however because they were unable to inflate the slides and the
passengers were in fact on the wing proper. My husband and I were talking
about the Hudson River incident this morning.  I believe that I would have
teamed with other passengers and the personnel just as they did. I believe
that it would have been better to do so because finding the ship etc would
have been more difficult on my own. It must be the dog guide user's
responsibility to handle the dogs as long as we are able because we are
better able to do this. Basically, anyone in the emergency situation has to
deal with the situation as it arises as best they can. I believe that it is
helpful for me to have experienced the mock situation so that I have an idea
of what it is like.   

Joy and Belle,
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Subject: [nagdu] Fw: Emergency plane evacuation


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Julie Phillipson
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Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Emergency plane evacuation


> Tracy I've often thought about that and thought it would be a good 
> thing
> to do.  Perhaps if we could get an airline to cooperate this would be a 
> project that NAGDU could take on.
>
> Julie Phillipson
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> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:54 PM
> 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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