Emergency Slide Question
I wanted to ask some Techs here a question about the emergency slide on 747's.
We work in Catering and our employer wants us to wear a safety harness which has 2 lock attachements when opening aircraft doors, just incase we fall off the raised truck.
We questioned the safety side of things that if a emergency slide deployed when opening a door, we would be history, as you could not release your safety harness in time.
I know we are to check if the door shute is armed, but we just want to know, if one did go off if we would be crushed inside our truck.
I have heard reports of catering truck drivers in the USA that have been crushed to death by emergency slides that accidently deployed.
We have been told that with B737's, that the slide would have to fall about 15cm before it would deploy, this is going by the manual.
We want to know how far a B747 slide has to fall before it deploys, or would it deploy right away if it was in the armed position, or accidently going off, faulty ect ect.
Does anyone here have some facts, so we can tell our management that been tired up to a safety harness by 2 attachments is dangerous.
Thanks kindly