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Old Sep 15, 2014 | 11:56 pm
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Originally Posted by slawecki
i presume the airline gets to choose the evacuees, and i doubt they are choosing fat guys just out of macdonalds. in fact, it would not surprise me but that the evacuees are professional evacuators.
I've been told that these tests use airline or aircraft manufacturer employees who get a bit of extra bonus pay for the exercise. There was a case some time ago where a number of them were injured during one of these tests.
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