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From: Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren)
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Subject: Re: Agreeing to disagree!
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Date: 13 May 91 21:07:29 GMT
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 CM> From: cmfaltz@phoenix.princeton.edu (Christine Marie Faltz)
 CM> Message-ID: <15047@handicap.news>
 CM> Index Number: 15047

 CM>         Jeff, give me a break, please.  First of all, most exit doors
 CM> only require that you "PUSH,"--it says so on the door;

This is not true.  I didn't intend to get back in this discussion
anymore, because I believe it has been beaten to death.  However,
one year when the ACB convention was in ATlanta, the Eastern
airlinen conducted a seminar on how to exit airplains.  We saw
various types of doors, some of the required pulling a lever, and
the exit windows, require unlatching two latches, and lifting the
windows out.  Now, I am not saying this to say that blind people
couldn't learn how to do this, because we did, but to straighten
out the facts about opening exit doors.

It is strange that in this whole discussion, no one has been able
to answer my one problem with the blind sitting in the exit rows,
and that is, how is a blind person going to be able to help the
people exit the plane, and tell them which way to go after they are
out in a strange place.  It is possible if you go in the wrong
direction, no telling what you will get into.  There is no
substitution for sight in that case.

               Walter

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