Hats off to Air France

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I fly enough that I sometimes think of an airplane as rental space. I rent the seat while the plane takes me to wherever I need to go. You could consider the service crew as the proeprty managers. They come out in the aisles and visit. They offer a little treat. They make sure you are comfortable. But what we hopefully never experience first hand is the disaster preparations they have made.

I once had an acquaintnace who was a pilot for Northwest Air. He told me that the flight attendants we really emergency evacuation staff disguised as soda fetchers. I chuckled. I figured his take on flying had so much to do with the flying and the saftey of the airplane that he had a distorted view of things. But after the evacuation exercise at the Toronto airport, I think my acquaintance was right on the money. The estimate I heard was that the flight crew got all the passengers out of the plane inside of three minutes. This is great work. I’ve needed to get off a flight in a hurry to make a tight connection and I have never seen a plane empty fast enough for my taste. You know there were a lot of people hustling and moving to get off in three minutes.

What sort of evacuation plans does your property have? If there were to be a disater in your building or across the street from your property, how fast would you get everyone out? I am still awestruck at how few people died in the distruction of the World Trade Center Towers in comparison to how many could have died if the evacuation had been slow. I had been in the World Trade Center towers several times. When I saw them fall on television I feared 50,000 people may have died.

In the case of the Air France crash in Toronto, preparation, good proceedures, sharp staff and damn good luck all coincided. Could your staff match that kind of action?

Just becasue 2001 was a few years ago, we still need to think about how and how fast we could empty our properties if we needed to. What is your plan?

bye for now, Tron

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