How Flight Attendants Train for Emergencies

The person who handed you a drink and a smile has been trained to drag you out of a burning aircraft in 90 seconds, fight a fire in blinding smoke, and keep a plane full of terrified strangers calm. Flight attendants are safety professionals first, servers second. In this video: The 90-second rule: an aircraft must be evacuated with HALF its exits blocked, in darkness The shouted commands drilled until they're automatic: 'Undo your seatbelts! Leave everything! Come this way!' Fire training in smoke-filled mock cabins, smoke hoods, crawling to the fire, and why electrical fires need halon, not water Water ditching: escape slides that become rafts, life jackets in seconds, and real pool survival drills Medical duties at 35,000 ft: CPR, defibrillators, decompression, even childbirth The silent 30-second review before every takeoff and landing Why staying calm is the most trained skill of all, because panic is contagious And why it never stops: annual recurrent training for their whole career Subscribe for more aviation explained simply. #aviation #flightattendant #cabincrew #aviationsafety #aviationfacts #avgeek #aerospace