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'The stewardess jumped up and stared at the door. Her face was drained white.
'She ran up the aisle, grabbed the intercom and started screaming, “The door’s going to go, the door’s going to go!” Then she hid under her chair.
‘Other passengers were crying and saying “We’re going to go down, we’re going to go down.”
'It was complete panic. The emergency door was ajar and leaving a gaping hole. You could see straight out into the atmosphere, 27,000ft up.’
Mr Reid, who has a private pilot’s licence, said that after several moments of confusion, the cabin crew started grabbing blankets and pillows which they stuck together with duct tape to fill the gap.
He added: ‘This is a state-of-the-art plane but they were using the most crude method you could imagine to try and plug the hole.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-gap-blankets-says-Briton.html#ixzz2L1eAPbVb
'She ran up the aisle, grabbed the intercom and started screaming, “The door’s going to go, the door’s going to go!” Then she hid under her chair.
‘Other passengers were crying and saying “We’re going to go down, we’re going to go down.”
'It was complete panic. The emergency door was ajar and leaving a gaping hole. You could see straight out into the atmosphere, 27,000ft up.’
Mr Reid, who has a private pilot’s licence, said that after several moments of confusion, the cabin crew started grabbing blankets and pillows which they stuck together with duct tape to fill the gap.
He added: ‘This is a state-of-the-art plane but they were using the most crude method you could imagine to try and plug the hole.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-gap-blankets-says-Briton.html#ixzz2L1eAPbVb
improvise is something we learn during NS - when u run out of bandage for casualties, use ur handkerchiefs!
