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Article: Fasten seat belts - and keep them fastened!
- Article from:
- Medical Update
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
- Author:
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We think it's time for the airlines to do more than urge passengers to keep seat belts fastened at ALL times, even when there is no obvious turbulence at hand. So-called "clear-air turbulence," which airline pilots cannot detect with the usual means available to them, can cause an aircraft to drop thousands of feet without warning--and anything not securely fastened down can wreak havoc in the cabin. The most recent example, which occurred over the Pacific several years ago, resulted in one death and more than 300 injuries, simply because most of the passengers failed to follow the instructions from the flight deck to keep seat belts fastened even when the FASTEN SEAT BELT …
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