[nagdu] Fw: Emergency plane evacuation

sarah baebler wolvessarah at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 19 15:00:41 UTC 2009 

Hello,
I watched the news and it showed that when the flight attendants get their training they go through a test that is set in a pool.  It had a portion of a plane and an exit door and showed people and attendants jumping out of the door and into the water.  If we could get one of those facilities to help us figure out a safe, non-controlling way to get out with our dogs. I am definitely interested in participating in the mock if one gets planned. It would be amazing to have a video recording and then distribute it to all the airlines.
Sarah and Dante
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> From: Ladypurple222 at aol.com
> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:04:19 -0500
> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Fw:  Emergency plane evacuation
> 
> could I share this with my group as i have wondered about this  Norma  Jean 
> and Sir Willie
>  
>  
> In a message dated 1/18/2009 8:11:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> relton30857 at cox.net writes:
> 
> 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,
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of  JULIE PHILLIPSON
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:56 AM
> To:  NAGDU
> Subject: [nagdu] Fw: Emergency plane evacuation
> 
> 
> second  try
> 
> Julie Phillipson
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "JULIE  PHILLIPSON" <jbrew48 at verizon.net>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the  National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> 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
> > ----- Original Message  -----
> > 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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