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So 90% of people not wearing heels have to run over burning tarmac with no footwear?
by isostatic 9y ago
So 90% of people not wearing heels have to run over burning tarmac with no footwear?
- dogma1138 9y agoIt’s not only heels that can chase a puncture and it’s still better than the flight crew having to inspect each shoe individually.
- gumby 9y agoYou can't run in heels. And we crossed only a short bit of tarmac before being assembled on a big patch of grass. I think you're better off running in bare feet than damaging the slide or spearing the person ahead of you. That ramp is STEEP (apparently broken ankles are common).
- secfirstmd 9y agoSidenote, it's something addressed in close protection training. If the principal is a woman and she's wearing heels, good teams will have some kind of thin flat shoe nearby for her.
- JoblessWonder 9y agoThat is part of the reasoning behind changing the procedure. I think it mentions it in the article.
- megy 9y agoYeah, I guess the guys who have planned exactly for this, spent years looking at it, and created one of the safest industries in the world did not think of that?
- isostatic 9y agoApparently not, as they changed the rules to make you only remove high heel shoes. Airlines are safe because they keep learning from mistakes and updating regulations with new evidence.