SouthWest Airlines

Watch Video: HERE  and HERE and HERE


What can we learn from this?
1. Listen to the safety announcement! Regardless of how often you fly the information is important every time. There are many different airplanes and airlines and all operate differently. Knowing where your oxygen masks fall from and locating that spot above your seat is vital! Knowing what you need to do with the mask is vital is as well. Some are different. Some you pull down firmly, some you have to remove a clip. This is important to know so that you can get it on quickly and start the flow.


When there is a rapid decompression like this it's vital to get your masks on immediately. You have less than 30 seconds of usefull conscienceness. The 30 seconds needs to be about you. Worry about the person next to you AFTER you have your masks on. This is also why it's very important that there is an adult next to each child. If not then I always make sure to take the demonstration masks and show them one on one how it works and what to do.


2. Keep your damn seatbelt on! Yes, it's uncomfortable. We realize that. But keep it on but just loosen it. That way should something like this occur you aren't scrambling to find your seatbelt and simply just need to tighten it. It's soo important. It's not just for turbulence. Many flight attendants have been hurt or even killed because they were sucked out of an airplane (see 2nd and 3rd video)


Common sense. If your plane rips open you have to understand that your crew is doing things behind the scenes that they have been trained on doing. If something like this happens your pilots are going to get down as fast as possible to a safe altitude where you won't even need the oxygen mask. When you have a rapid decompression such as the one that Southwest Airlines experienced the pilots did exactly what they are trained for and went from 36,000 feet to 11,000 feet, which only takes a couple of minutes. Yes you will have that roller coaster feeling in your stomach but it's not you crashing. It's you making an emergency landing quickly.Yes we have training on this and we're prepared for the unexpected and while passengers are not it's soo important to listen to us. While you thinkIt's not about power it's about safety. Some of us just care more than others but yes I will pick on you until you follow instructions because in the end I would rather have that then your dead body being pulled off of my airplane.