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Survival Factors Issues

Survival Factors Issues. Mark George Survival Factors Specialist. Survival Factors Issues. At least 7 minutes elapsed between engine failure and water contact. Pilot did not tell passengers about the possibility of ditching or to retrieve life vests.

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Survival Factors Issues

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  1. Survival Factors Issues Mark George Survival Factors Specialist

  2. Survival Factors Issues • At least 7 minutes elapsed between engine failure and water contact. • Pilot did not tell passengers about the possibility of ditching or to retrieve life vests. • Passenger in seat 5A retrieved three life vests and put them on children. • Passenger in seat 3B retrieved life vest and read safety briefing card. • None of the remaining six life vests were retrieved.

  3. Survival Factors Issues • Additional life vests were dropped by other airplanes. • U.S. Coast Guard dispatched three aircraft to the scene, which arrived about 90 minutes after the accident. • Air Sunshine General Operations Manual called for an emergency briefing by the pilot prior to the ditching.

  4. Survival Factors Conclusions • After determining that he was going to ditch the airplane, the pilot failed to conduct an emergency briefing, and this failure contributed to passenger fatalities. • The passengers would have had sufficient time to retrieve and don their life vests if the pilot had instructed them to do so shortly after the right engine failed.

  5. Survival Factors Issues Mark George Survival Factors Specialist

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