PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. – The AOPA Foundation’s Air Safety Institute (ASI) released its “Critical Information: The Passenger Safety Briefing” video during the AOPA Summit, October 11, 2012 in Palm Springs, which covers often-overlooked items that should be part of every passenger safety briefing. ASI created the video in response to an NTSB safety recommendation for better preflight safety briefings of passengers in the event of pilot incapacitation after an accident.
In the 2010 accident that killed Sen. Ted Stevens, there was an 18-hour delay in locating the aircraft. Among the reasons was that the surviving passengers were unaware that a working satellite phone was aboard the aircraft. This video helps encourage pilots to spend more time, and be more thorough, in providing basic post-accident survival information to passengers prior to flight.
That information includes: how to use the aircraft’s radio after an accident; whether there’s a handheld radio aboard, and how to use it; how to activate Emergency Locator Transmitters; and what, if any, survival and first aid gear is aboard, and where it’s located. The video also includes an example of a real-life briefing.
The video can be viewed at www.airsafetyinstitute.org/video/paxbrief.