Originally Posted by
nickio
Agreed. Interestingly, there was recently (about 6-8 months ago), an article in the Economist about airplane safety demonstrations and the complete inapplicability of the recommendations in the event of a real emergency.
Maybe entertaining as a satire piece, and I agree that the routine is pretty entertaining, but, at the same time, AF managed to evacuate a fully loaded wide body that was caught fire on landing at YYZ a few months ago. I'm clearly not going to argue that lack of recline allowed that to happen, but it is worth considering that some of the plans make sense.