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High heels are not OK, for obvious reasons. Regular shoes are fine.
by resolutebat 3y ago
High heels are not OK, for obvious reasons. Regular shoes are fine.
- dataflow 3y agoAhh that makes way more sense. Thanks.
- thelibrarian 3y agoNot just high heels, but also many boots have sharp protrusions (e.g. lace hooks on some hiking boots and work boots, metal decorations on goth and cowboy boots)
- MBCook 3y agoHuh. That sounded wrong so I googled it. I thought it was all shoes. You’re right. What I said above used to be true. That seems to have been questioned in the 90s and in 2000 the FAA finalized a rule changing it. The current recommendation (https://www.faa.gov/travelers/fly_safe/information https://www.faa.gov/travelers/fly_safe/information) say you can keep your shoes on but to remove high heels, as you said. A bit of googling says it was changed because of passengers injuring their feet on the terrain/debris after crashes. Additionally modern slides are much tougher than they used to be and won’t tear from shoes and probably even high heels. But I bet high heels are probably not a smart thing to be wearing on possibly uneven debris covered terrain in an emergency when you need to move fast and safely. Learn something new every day.
- gumby 3y agoThey confiscated all our shoes. Crashing into someone at the bottom with shoes could be a problem too.