Timeline for What items could you bring on-board to maximise your chance of survival in an emergency?
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| Sep 4, 2017 at 17:24 | comment | added | dotancohen | A utility knife capable of cutting your seatbelt: Note that you can bring obsidian stones with you. They are just as sharp as knives for the first few cuts, and are not detected by a metal detector, x-ray, or other means. | |
| Jul 21, 2016 at 21:39 | history | edited | fooot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2015 at 21:51 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | A life vest will be already on board on any flight over significant body of water and many other flights (in Europe it usually is there even if you don't fly anywhere near any water, because they just have standard equipment in their fleet, but I believe regional airlines that never fly across water may not have them). | |
| Mar 20, 2014 at 21:36 | comment | added | reirab | "but frankly if your airliner goes down ATC is going to know where you were when they lost contact" One certainly would have thought so, but recent events suggest that this is not as dependable as one would have assumed in certain parts of the world. | |
| Mar 14, 2014 at 3:46 | comment | added | Jason C | Yup; when my plane crashes in a swamp and I'm knee deep in kerosene with 80 other desperate survivors, remind me to run like hell before that one guy gets excited and fires his signal flare. | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 5:29 | comment | added | Lnafziger | Sure, I was just saying that there isn't much need to bring your own since if there is a need for oxygen (depressurization) then they already have it there for you. | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 5:28 | comment | added | voretaq7 | @lnafziger This is true (and in fact as others have pointed out oxygen-dependent patients may be allowed to fly with an oxygen bottle as long as the oxygen supply is not deemed to be a hazard). The on-board oxygen masks are a special case though - they're usually connected to either a central oxygen tank or to chemical oxygen generators, both which are not without their own hazards in the event of an in-flight fire (chemical oxygen generators feature prominently in at least one NTSB report), but the risks are known & designed for. | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 5:06 | comment | added | Lnafziger | Note that oxygen is also provided by the airline ("if the overhead masks should deploy...."). Since smoke fumes and fire kill the most people, I would vote for the smoke hood and a nomex fire suit. :-) | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 22:31 | vote | accept | Danny Beckett | ||
| Jan 3, 2014 at 22:19 | history | edited | voretaq7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2014 at 22:11 | history | answered | voretaq7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |