Safety Demonstrations (Airlines in general)

Member Name: starfish2000

Product:	Airlines in general
Date:	03/09/00 (157 review reads)
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No matter what airline you fly with or where you are going 99% of the time you'll get one of these demonstrations at the beginning of your flight (although I did recently fly malaysia Airlines who didn't do it).

You all know what I'm talking about...
Should the cabin pressure fall oxygen masks will fall from above your seat.
Lights to the exits will appear along the aisles.
Exits can be found here, here and here.
Under your seat you will find your life jacket, put it on like this, inflate like this... etc etc.

It was on an internal Air Inter (part of Air France) flight from Nice to Paris a few years ago that it first occured to me how useless these demonstrations were. Life jacket? Between Nice and Paris? What body of water were they expecting us to crash into?? I know the demonstrations are probably standard and they have to do them on all flights but it got me thinking, when did you ever hear of a plane crashing into the sea and there being surviors? Would a life jacket under my seat really be of any use if we did happen to crash into a lake between Nice and Paris? No it wouldn't, as would none of the other safety information.

Basically as far as I can see, if a plane crashes you're pretty much dead, emergency lighting, oxygen masks and life jackets aren't going to be of any help. All those demonstrations do for me now is remind me that when that plane takes off my life is entirely in the hands of the pilot, they don't reassure me at all, I wish they'd stop doing them.

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