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Singapore Airlines: More than twenty treated for spinal injuries after turbulence flight (www.bbc.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Six people on the Singapore Airlines flight are still in critical condition with life-threatening injuries.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I just learned that even my own partner didn't know that you're supposed to keep your seatbelt on even when the fasten seatbelts sign is off. The sign being turned off doesn't mean you can unfasten your seatbelt while seated. It means you may remove your seatbelt to get up and move about the cabin, such as to use the restroom or get something from an overhead bin. You are then meant to return to your seat and refasten your seatbelt.

Just sharing because if he didn't know that, I'm sure plenty of other people don't. Hopefully after this little disaster, airlines will start to make that clearer again.

Again, wear your seatbelts.

Edit: If you don't like to wear the seatbelt because it feels too tight even at its loosest, you can ask a flight attendant for a seatbelt extender.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Wow.

That's crazy, since every flight I've ever taken (many, I flew for work for a decade), they state this.

They sometimes even re-state it during the flight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

No one will learn from this.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As someone who flies more than 100 times in an average year I can tell you that only idiots don't wear their seatbelts all the time in an airplane. I was traveling with someone who was a new traveler who thought that experienced travellers didn't wear their seatbelts so he refused to wear his. I asked to be moved to a row where people were wearing their seatbelts. When we landed and he got in me about it I told him that not only might he be injured when he hit the ceiling but that he might injured me on his way down. He wore his seatbelt after that any time we flew together.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's really not that difficult to wear a seatbelt, I don't understand the people that don't. It's less restrictive than the belt holding up your pants and it's not like there is an annoying shoulder strap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

He thought that it made him look like an experienced flyer. I suspect that some of them are members of the you-can't-tell-me-what-to-do crowd.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

What a Muppet

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My problem is I always forget to listen to the in-flight announcements so I never figure out how to put my seatbelt on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All the stories about people not knowing you should keep your seatbelt on at all times really demonstrates the failure of all the safety videos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'd say it's a failure of the people to listen or pay attention.

They say this every flight, sometimes mid-flight when they know they're approaching turbulence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Didn't the guy who almost got ejected out of the 737 door plug fiasco attribute his survival to keeping his belt on? I mean that's enough reason for me by itself.