Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
There's a story of a SQ crash where the investigation determined that some FAs would have lived if they hadn't been wearing their little slippers. Since then, they wear sturdy black leather shoes on the ground and only change to the slippers in the air.
Do you have a reference for that? Seems like an urban legend.
SQ has only had "one" crash. SQ006 departing TPE. From the
airliners thread
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But a spokesman for the airline dismissed any link with the crash, saying the review process to change footwear for the cabin crew began a year before the accident."
Originally Posted by
nk15
Which reminds me that after you evacuate or thrown on the tarmac you would need your shoes on to dodge the emergency vehicle that may run you over, like in the Asiana crash...
I'm pretty sure in the Asiana case it would be a million times better to wear seatbelts and not have anything on your feet ...