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From: Beth.Hatch-Alleyne@f207.n260.z1.fidonet.org (Beth Hatch-Alleyne)
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Subject: Re: Airlines
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Date: 17 Jun 91 20:23:03 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Susan; thanks for your message, and I did not take it as a lecture
at all.  I appreciate the importance, as you do, of having escape
routes in getting out of a fire.  The data I received about blind
people in smoke filled planes is not heresay or theory, but based on
data obtained from personal accounts of a crash where a blind
individual got a bunch of panicked sighted people out of a plane.
Fire, in any cirbumstances, is dangerous.  The point I was trying to
make was that blindness doesn't mean that one does not have the
presence of mind to get passengers out of a burning airplane.  The
FAA has not been able to find any evidence that blind people have
impeeded an evacuation.  Compitence and reflexes are the issue, as
well as having a well planned escape route, not blindness, precisely
the point I was trying to make although you made it better than I.
I appreciate your telling me and everyone else of your experiences
with fire, and I, like you, hope that others will take heed and plan
their escape routes carefully and diligently, Beth.

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