Practical Disasters – Ep. 1

“Practical Disasters” are disasters that have happened in the past, and may happen in the future.  Obviously, I am not talking about a scenario like in the movie 2012.  These are the disasters that people can survive, or at least try to.  In this series of “Practical Disasters,” I will give you some tips of things you can do to help you best survive under potentially fatal disasters.

Plane Crash

Believe it or not, the odds of surviving a plane crash is 99.9999815%, which means if you know what to do during and after the crashing of the plane, you are very much likely to survive.

Below are some tips that could help you increase your chance of surviving an airplane crash:

• STAY ABSOLUTELY CALM: Most people who have died were in a state of panic.
• Find the closest emergency exit: Sometimes the airline has map of the airplane in front of every seat, take a look and find your relative position to the exit.  If no map is provided, while you are walking down the aisle , you can count the number of the row of seat between you and the exit.
• Bend your upper body over with your head down and wrap your arms behind your knees during impact: Usually, you will learn this position when you are paying attention to the flight attendants before take off.
• Pay atte­ntion to the preflight instructions, as all planes are different.
• Wear long pants, sleeves and closed-toed shoes.  This will protect your skin from getting hurt.
• If traveling with kids, adults must take responsibility and divide the responsibility if there are more than one or two kids.  Nothing is worse than looking for your child after plane crash.
• Make sure that you are wearing your oxygen mask so you don’t fall unconscious during a crash.
• Stay low if there is a fire, and get out the plane as soon as it has crashed: the smoke and fume are toxic and will kill you.
• Get to a safe location far from the plane within the first 90 seconds.
• Abandon your carry-on luggage.
• Do not inflate your life jacket before you are outside of the plane.

Don’t worry, once you are far away from the crash plane, stay with other survives and rescue crew will arrive and you will be fine.

Do you have any suggestions to survive a plane crash?  Share them with us in the comment section.