Originally Posted by Jambo Buana
I flew with a FO recently who did not know about the BMI 734 accident in East Midlands! Why, because he wasnt even born. Apart from feeling old, I felt sad that pilots are being born today that will make the same mistakes in 20 years time as those which befall us today
I remember this accident, and the conclusions about passenger escape. British Midland (as they were then) took these very much on board, and from shortly afterwards started a very firm part of the passenger briefing about how floor level lights lead to the exit, LOOK at the lights, which were then demonstrated on and off. It was done on every flight. I believe the aircraft received a wiring modification for the cc to achieve this from the briefing station.
In more recent years, guess what, this has all gone from the BMI pax briefing once again. I bet whoever is responsible was not around the airline at the time and does not recall quite why there was the stress on this point.