![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/flight-attendants-say-they-have-nightmares-about-making-deadly-mistake/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Joyous-flight-attendant-closing-the-plug-door-before-the-take-off.jpg&description=Jay Roberts, a former senior cabin crew member for Emirates who runs the popular Fly Guy's Cabin Crew Lounge, explained that a simple mistake on a plane could prove deadly A life-saving device that can prove deadly if used in the wrong way causes flight attendants to have nightmares, one has claimed. Emergency slides are installed on planes to save lives in the rare event that an aircraft crashes, providing a way for passengers to get down from the cabin onto the ground. As useful as they may be, if deployed in the wrong way the slides can prove deadly. Former flight attendant Jay Roberts explained that accidentally activating an emergency slide is something cabin crew "dread" and is the source of much anxiety for them. The former senior cabin crew member for Emirates, who runs the popular Fly Guy's Cabin Crew Lounge network, told MailOnline: "Even with several checks and balances involving more than one person to ensure the slides don't open accidentally, mishaps still happen, and at larger airlines, they happen several times a year and cost airlines tens of thousands to repack. In addition to being costly and causing great embarrassment among colleagues, being known as that crew who "blew a slide", the mistake poses a real danger to safety." Regardless of its size, commercial jets must be able to evacuate all passengers within 90 seconds. In order to make this possible, emergency slides are kept under enough pressure to allow them to inflate in seconds. If someone gets in the way of the contraption and are not expecting the deployment, the force could kill them. There are no deaths on record, but people have come close. When a Asiana Flight crashed landed in 2013, the impact caused two of the slides to deploy. As a result a pair of flight attendants onboard ended up trapped beside the exits, with only the quick actions of one of their colleagues who used an axe to deflate the slide enough to save them. Jay explained that there are strict and complicated protocols){kind=link}
Jay Roberts, a former senior cabin crew member for Emirates who runs the popular Fly Guy’s Cabin Crew Lounge, explained that a simple mistake on a plane could prove deadly
A life-saving device that can prove deadly if used in the wrong way causes flight attendants to have nightmares, one has claimed.
Emergency slides are installed on planes to save lives in the rare event that an aircraft crashes, providing a way for passengers to get down from the cabin onto the ground. As useful as they may be, if deployed in the wrong way the slides can prove deadly.
Former flight attendant Jay Roberts explained that accidentally activating an emergency slide is something cabin crew “dread” and is the source of much anxiety for them.
The former senior cabin crew member for Emirates, who runs the popular Fly Guy’s Cabin Crew Lounge network, told MailOnline: “Even with several checks and balances involving more than one person to ensure the slides don’t open accidentally, mishaps still happen, and at larger airlines, they happen several times a year and cost airlines tens of thousands to repack. In addition to being costly and causing great embarrassment among colleagues, being known as that crew who “blew a slide”, the mistake poses a real danger to safety.”