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Old 16th Jan 2009, 01:14
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mickjoebill
 
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Why so few vests?

Studying the still pictures it appears that the majority of passengers were not wearing life vests and the over wing chute is nowhere to be seen.

Will be interesting to understand why most passengers did not don life vests, given the time between the turn to the river and the impact.

In any emergency near water perhaps it should become part of emergency procedure to don life vests especially so in cold climates?

I know it costs money to check and repack the vests once they have been donned, are there other reasons for passengers as a precaution not to don vests?

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