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NTSB, August 25, "Mandatory" PFD
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Maynard G. Krebbs
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NTSB, August 25, "Mandatory" PFD
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 05:54:11 GMT,
(Steven
Shelikoff) wrote:
On 07 Jul 2004 22:03:35 GMT,
(Gould 0738) wrote:
According to NTSB statistics, 100% of passengers killed in commercial airline
crashes were not wearing parachutes.
I guess we should be looking into that....
Parachutes don't improve your safety on a commercial flight.
They can be useful, however, when leaping out of a plane.
More people will survive falling off a boat without a PFD than will survive
falling out of an airplane without a parachute.
I'd think that 100% of the people who fall out of an airplane without a
parachute will die. I'm sure there are plenty of people who fall off a
boat without a PFD who survive.
Steve
One of our team members in Vietnam fell out of a helicopter from 1,500
feet and broke his colarbone sp. He fell into triple-canopy jungle
that was 120 feet high and broke branches most of the way to the
ground.
Mark E. Williams
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