Back to the top, given recent events in Miami, as described at
http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/For...ML/011132.html
What got my attention (and has me
) is this, from a Miami Herald article posted by SKYDRIFTER:
"Those who didn't know how to use the chutes went head first, witnesses said."
Just one minute, just one effing minute!!! No, I cannot ever remember having been told to slide feet first. I can't even remember reading anything about sliding feet first. But what I do remember, and is (or should be) bloody obvious, even to the *illiterate*, is the picture in the safety information card in the seat front pocket, the same picture that I believe was in *every* safety card I have ever seen - the one that clearly shows people going *feet first* down the evacuation slides.
Any bets on whether anyone who suffered certain *specific* injuries (say to hands, arms, or face) as a result of sliding head first, an action which appears to have been the result of his or her own *stupidity*, will sue the maker of the aircraft and/or the airline because of these injuries? Grrrrrr.
My sympathy goes out the colleagues, family and friends of the purser on the flight.