14 September 2006

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...if they were somewhat more frank:

Your life-jacket can be found under your seat, but please do not remove it now. In fact, do not bother to look for it at all. In the event of a landing on water, an unprecedented miracle will have occurred, because in the history of aviation the number of wide-bodied aircraft that have made successful landings on water is zero.


courtesy of The Economist: http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7884654

Update: This blog post gives links to several references (and the comments include more) that suggest that the author of this article actually doesn't know what he's talking about in a couple of important instances (e.g. seat facing, wide-body plane ditching). So, still funny, but perhaps not as much so.

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