After Recent Multiple Airline Crashes, Experts Explain What To Do In An Emergency

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After a Delta plane crashed while landing in Toronto, the third major aviation accident in just a few weeks, professionals give insight on what to do in the case of an emergency.

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00:00It's perfectly natural that we zone out when the safety demonstration is being given to

00:15us at the start of a flight, but if we did put our newspaper or whatever else down and

00:20took our headphones off and reminded ourselves maybe for the hundredth, five hundredth time

00:25however often we fly, count the number of rows to the exit, take nothing with you, extremely

00:31important amongst many other things.

00:34We have a much greater chance of survival and psychologically we're likely to do better.

00:39When you enter the aircraft is the most vital part of any emergency response.

00:45That means that we're listening and when it's your time to exit the aircraft you do, you're

00:49not grabbing your personal belongings or anything of that nature because that slows down the

00:53process.

00:54We're wearing our seatbelts, making sure our chair is fully up because that will allow

00:58a full space to egress if needed.

01:01Our ideal goal is to evacuate in 90 seconds or less.

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