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1. Following the Leader in Airline Emergencies
First of all, let’s set aside the myth that an aviation accident = everybody dead. It’s not the case though it leads some people adopt the fatalistic and passive view that if anything goes wrong there’s little they can do about it.
But at a hangar at London’s Heathrow Airport, British Airways is giving select passengers a dare-I-say crash course in accident survivability. It’s a one-day class offered for the frequent-flying employees of companies who are customers of BA. Scott writes that the airline is considering whether to offer the training to the public for a fee or in exchange for frequent flier miles.
I’ll admit on first reading I was perturbed by Andy Clubb, the flight attendant who runs the class, who told Scott, "We teach people to react faster than anyone else so they are in the aisle first and down the slide first," but Clubb goes on to explain that when a confident passenger demonstrates the correct way to respond, others will follow.
Passengers as exemplars is a fabulous idea, a safety spin on the lesson of United Airlines flight 93 that once the door to the plane is closed the folks inside are a self-contained and necessarily self-sufficient community. In a crisis, survival depends on how well the community works as a whole.
Evacuating a 777 is a little frightening
The last time I traveled by air, I sat at the over wing exit row and when the flight attendant asked me if I was willing to handle the door in an emergency, I answered confidently that I was. After all, I’d just spent a week in flight attendant training at Emirates reporting a story for The New York Times. Can I remove the door if required? Yes, indeed. (I could even sell duty free perfume if push came to shove.)
What’s a tad bit troubling is that British Airways is considering charging tuition of $220 for the school. If better safety on the plane becomes another source of ancillary revenue like better service at the airport well, that would be wrong.
A crazed rugby fan in Air New Zealand's safety briefing
Passengers deserve some of the blame for being blasé about safety, but with a few exceptions such as Air New Zealand, Southwest and Cebu Pacific (see their videos below) the airlines have done little to make the safety briefing relevant or interesting to passengers. For the most part, their flight attendants are up there droning on and on - boring us to death with information that could save our lives.
So my proposal is this; how about all the airlines join BA in this innovative new program and invite their most frequent travelers to take a safety course for free? Then, in return, and "in the unlikely event of an emergency" these trained passengers would follow instructions text-book style and show the rest of us how its done.
2. Pilot killed, woman injured as plane crashes into Grayson motel, house
Smoke was everywhere, except where there were flames.
That’s how Dalton Nevil, 15, described the aftermath of a small plane crashing into a motel and adjacent house in Grayson County Friday afternoon.
Nevil was outside his girlfriend’s apartment when the plane crashed into the Pine Tree Inn next door in Falls of Rough.
Nevil said he ran to the house house attached to the rear of the motel and found the complex’s co-owner Tyonie Bruner dazed in her bedroom as fire and pitch-black smoke filled the house, the hotel and the nearby space outdoors.
“It was horrible,” he said.
He helped her from burning building and into the parking lot.
But the pilot of the single-engine plane died after crashing into the rear of the small motel near the Rough River Dam State Resort Park, Grayson County Coroner Joe Brad Hudson said. Much of the plane was destroyed in the crash.
The pilot’s name had not been released as of Friday evening.
Just after 12:30 p.m., the plane struck a corner where the hotel and house to its rear are attached, Grayson County Sheriff Rick Clemons said. A witness told authorities that the plane took off from an airfield at the state park, circled, sputtered and crashed into building, Clemons said.
The cause was under investigation.
The Federal Aviation Administration was investigating Friday at the motel. National Transportation Safety Board investigators were traveling from Atlanta to investigate.
Bruner was treated by emergency medical personnel on scene, Clemons said.
She suffered burns to her hands, said Shavonne Jones, her daughter. The hotel had customers, but none were in the building at the time of the crash, she said.
Bruner was lying in bed when she heard the plane approaching, just before it crashed through a wall in her bedroom Jones said.
“She said all she’d seen was a big ball of fire,” Jones said.
Jesse Burton, Bruner’s son, said he rushed from his home nearby after hearing of the crash and found flames leaping from back of the motel.
3. Church happenings | October 1, 2011
COURTESY OF SUE LEWIS - From left, Dean Smith, Jeanne Hood and Jo Dozier, with Margaret Fralix seated, attend the 15th anniversary celebration of Tea and Empathy, a spousal-loss support group at First Baptist Church in Rock Hill. The group meets at 11:45 a.m. Wednesdays and is open to the public. For information, call 803-327-7181.
China Grove AME Zion Church, Mount Gallant Road, Rock Hill: DVDs of the 2011 revival are $10 per night or $25 per set of three nights. For information or to order, email chinagrove46@yahoo.com.
Liberty Hill AME Zion Church, Lake Wylie: Lay Day is Oct. 9. Appreciation weekend for the Rev. Thelma Gordon, Oct. 15-16. Tickets for Oct. 15 banquet at City Club in Rock Hill are $20.
Mount Calvary AME Zion Church, Neely's Creek Road, Rock Hill: Pastor's appreciation service, 10 a.m. Sunday. 50 States fellowship and fundraiser, 3 p.m. Oct. 8.
New Mount Olivet AME Zion Church, Dave Lyle Boulevard, Rock Hill: Appreciation service for the Rev. Alvin McLamb, 12:30 p.m. Oct. 9. Dinner after.
Rock Grove AME Zion Church, Margaret Street, Rock Hill: Pastor appreciation day, 2 p.m. Sunday.
Union Ezell AME Zion Church: Gospel Fest, 7 p.m. Friday with various church choirs and praise teams. Donation is $5.
BAPTIST
Big Calvary Baptist Church, Lando: Steven Howard will deliver his licensure service at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Boyd Hill Baptist Church, Glenn Street, Rock Hill: Gospel Extravaganza, 5 p.m. Oct. 9 in the family life center, featuring Joseph Wilson and All in the Family, The Stars of Zion and Phyllis Wilson and One Faith. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.
Ebenezer Baptist Church, South Herlong Avenue, Rock Hill: Inspirational Choir praise and worship celebration, 3 p.m. Oct. 9.
First Baptist Church, South Congress Street, York: Grandparents were honored Sept. 11 with a concert by the Black Brothers. Myrtis Neely was the oldest grandmother; Robert Adams, the oldest grandfather and Mary Bailes had the most grandchildren.
Hillcrest Baptist Church, S.C. 49, York: 52nd homecoming celebration, 7 tonight with a singing by His Anointed of Clover. Former Pastor Michael Faulkner will lead 10:30 a.m. worship Sunday. Dinner after. No other Sunday activities.
New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church, Hampton Street, Rock Hill: Women's Mission Union program, 11 a.m. Oct. 9.
Oakland Baptist Church, Oakland Avenue, Rock Hill: Ministry center clothing distribution, 9 a.m. Monday and Oct. 8.
Old Wilson Baptist Church, Pleasant Grove Church Road, Chester: Women's Day, 10:30 a.m. Oct. 16. Wear pink and white for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Park Ridge Baptist Church, Trotter Ridge Court, Newport: Benefit yard sale for Dean Shugart, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, 7 a.m. today. Proceeds will help pay medical expenses. For information, call the church at 803-366-3313. Benefit ride by the Carolina Faith Riders, Oct. 15.
Second Baptist Church, Mount Holly Road, Rock Hill: 40th anniversary homecoming, 11 a.m. Sunday. Special music by Ken Turner, who sang bass with the Blackwood Brothers for 25 years. Covered-dish lunch after.
Temple Baptist Church, Celriver Road, Rock Hill: Gospel singing with Carrie Twitty, 6 p.m. Oct. 8. Dinner after.
Weeping Mary Baptist Church, Bowling Green: Pink Tea Luncheon, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 8 at Gaston Memorial Hospital auditorium, Court Drive in Gastonia, N.C., to celebrate breast cancer survivors.
Woodhaven Baptist Church, Marett Boulevard, Rock Hill: Spanish classes, 6:30 p.m. Monday; Men's Ministry Rally, 7 p.m. Monday. Mission groups, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Hearts of Gold poor man's supper, 5 p.m. Oct. 8 with Charis performing.
Aviation NEWS By
Neha Jain
Aviation NEWS Reporter
1. Following the Leader in Airline Emergencies
First of all, let’s set aside the myth that an aviation accident = everybody dead. It’s not the case though it leads some people adopt the fatalistic and passive view that if anything goes wrong there’s little they can do about it.
But at a hangar at London’s Heathrow Airport, British Airways is giving select passengers a dare-I-say crash course in accident survivability. It’s a one-day class offered for the frequent-flying employees of companies who are customers of BA. Scott writes that the airline is considering whether to offer the training to the public for a fee or in exchange for frequent flier miles.
I’ll admit on first reading I was perturbed by Andy Clubb, the flight attendant who runs the class, who told Scott, "We teach people to react faster than anyone else so they are in the aisle first and down the slide first," but Clubb goes on to explain that when a confident passenger demonstrates the correct way to respond, others will follow.
Passengers as exemplars is a fabulous idea, a safety spin on the lesson of United Airlines flight 93 that once the door to the plane is closed the folks inside are a self-contained and necessarily self-sufficient community. In a crisis, survival depends on how well the community works as a whole.
Evacuating a 777 is a little frightening
The last time I traveled by air, I sat at the over wing exit row and when the flight attendant asked me if I was willing to handle the door in an emergency, I answered confidently that I was. After all, I’d just spent a week in flight attendant training at Emirates reporting a story for The New York Times. Can I remove the door if required? Yes, indeed. (I could even sell duty free perfume if push came to shove.)
What’s a tad bit troubling is that British Airways is considering charging tuition of $220 for the school. If better safety on the plane becomes another source of ancillary revenue like better service at the airport well, that would be wrong.
A crazed rugby fan in Air New Zealand's safety briefing
Passengers deserve some of the blame for being blasé about safety, but with a few exceptions such as Air New Zealand, Southwest and Cebu Pacific (see their videos below) the airlines have done little to make the safety briefing relevant or interesting to passengers. For the most part, their flight attendants are up there droning on and on - boring us to death with information that could save our lives.
So my proposal is this; how about all the airlines join BA in this innovative new program and invite their most frequent travelers to take a safety course for free? Then, in return, and "in the unlikely event of an emergency" these trained passengers would follow instructions text-book style and show the rest of us how its done.
2. Pilot killed, woman injured as plane crashes into Grayson motel, house
Smoke was everywhere, except where there were flames.
That’s how Dalton Nevil, 15, described the aftermath of a small plane crashing into a motel and adjacent house in Grayson County Friday afternoon.
Nevil was outside his girlfriend’s apartment when the plane crashed into the Pine Tree Inn next door in Falls of Rough.
Nevil said he ran to the house house attached to the rear of the motel and found the complex’s co-owner Tyonie Bruner dazed in her bedroom as fire and pitch-black smoke filled the house, the hotel and the nearby space outdoors.
“It was horrible,” he said.
He helped her from burning building and into the parking lot.
But the pilot of the single-engine plane died after crashing into the rear of the small motel near the Rough River Dam State Resort Park, Grayson County Coroner Joe Brad Hudson said. Much of the plane was destroyed in the crash.
The pilot’s name had not been released as of Friday evening.
Just after 12:30 p.m., the plane struck a corner where the hotel and house to its rear are attached, Grayson County Sheriff Rick Clemons said. A witness told authorities that the plane took off from an airfield at the state park, circled, sputtered and crashed into building, Clemons said.
The cause was under investigation.
The Federal Aviation Administration was investigating Friday at the motel. National Transportation Safety Board investigators were traveling from Atlanta to investigate.
Bruner was treated by emergency medical personnel on scene, Clemons said.
She suffered burns to her hands, said Shavonne Jones, her daughter. The hotel had customers, but none were in the building at the time of the crash, she said.
Bruner was lying in bed when she heard the plane approaching, just before it crashed through a wall in her bedroom Jones said.
“She said all she’d seen was a big ball of fire,” Jones said.
Jesse Burton, Bruner’s son, said he rushed from his home nearby after hearing of the crash and found flames leaping from back of the motel.
3. Church happenings | October 1, 2011
COURTESY OF SUE LEWIS - From left, Dean Smith, Jeanne Hood and Jo Dozier, with Margaret Fralix seated, attend the 15th anniversary celebration of Tea and Empathy, a spousal-loss support group at First Baptist Church in Rock Hill. The group meets at 11:45 a.m. Wednesdays and is open to the public. For information, call 803-327-7181.
China Grove AME Zion Church, Mount Gallant Road, Rock Hill: DVDs of the 2011 revival are $10 per night or $25 per set of three nights. For information or to order, email chinagrove46@yahoo.com.
Liberty Hill AME Zion Church, Lake Wylie: Lay Day is Oct. 9. Appreciation weekend for the Rev. Thelma Gordon, Oct. 15-16. Tickets for Oct. 15 banquet at City Club in Rock Hill are $20.
Mount Calvary AME Zion Church, Neely's Creek Road, Rock Hill: Pastor's appreciation service, 10 a.m. Sunday. 50 States fellowship and fundraiser, 3 p.m. Oct. 8.
New Mount Olivet AME Zion Church, Dave Lyle Boulevard, Rock Hill: Appreciation service for the Rev. Alvin McLamb, 12:30 p.m. Oct. 9. Dinner after.
Rock Grove AME Zion Church, Margaret Street, Rock Hill: Pastor appreciation day, 2 p.m. Sunday.
Union Ezell AME Zion Church: Gospel Fest, 7 p.m. Friday with various church choirs and praise teams. Donation is $5.
BAPTIST
Big Calvary Baptist Church, Lando: Steven Howard will deliver his licensure service at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Boyd Hill Baptist Church, Glenn Street, Rock Hill: Gospel Extravaganza, 5 p.m. Oct. 9 in the family life center, featuring Joseph Wilson and All in the Family, The Stars of Zion and Phyllis Wilson and One Faith. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.
Ebenezer Baptist Church, South Herlong Avenue, Rock Hill: Inspirational Choir praise and worship celebration, 3 p.m. Oct. 9.
First Baptist Church, South Congress Street, York: Grandparents were honored Sept. 11 with a concert by the Black Brothers. Myrtis Neely was the oldest grandmother; Robert Adams, the oldest grandfather and Mary Bailes had the most grandchildren.
Hillcrest Baptist Church, S.C. 49, York: 52nd homecoming celebration, 7 tonight with a singing by His Anointed of Clover. Former Pastor Michael Faulkner will lead 10:30 a.m. worship Sunday. Dinner after. No other Sunday activities.
New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church, Hampton Street, Rock Hill: Women's Mission Union program, 11 a.m. Oct. 9.
Oakland Baptist Church, Oakland Avenue, Rock Hill: Ministry center clothing distribution, 9 a.m. Monday and Oct. 8.
Old Wilson Baptist Church, Pleasant Grove Church Road, Chester: Women's Day, 10:30 a.m. Oct. 16. Wear pink and white for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Park Ridge Baptist Church, Trotter Ridge Court, Newport: Benefit yard sale for Dean Shugart, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, 7 a.m. today. Proceeds will help pay medical expenses. For information, call the church at 803-366-3313. Benefit ride by the Carolina Faith Riders, Oct. 15.
Second Baptist Church, Mount Holly Road, Rock Hill: 40th anniversary homecoming, 11 a.m. Sunday. Special music by Ken Turner, who sang bass with the Blackwood Brothers for 25 years. Covered-dish lunch after.
Temple Baptist Church, Celriver Road, Rock Hill: Gospel singing with Carrie Twitty, 6 p.m. Oct. 8. Dinner after.
Weeping Mary Baptist Church, Bowling Green: Pink Tea Luncheon, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 8 at Gaston Memorial Hospital auditorium, Court Drive in Gastonia, N.C., to celebrate breast cancer survivors.
Woodhaven Baptist Church, Marett Boulevard, Rock Hill: Spanish classes, 6:30 p.m. Monday; Men's Ministry Rally, 7 p.m. Monday. Mission groups, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Hearts of Gold poor man's supper, 5 p.m. Oct. 8 with Charis performing.
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Neha Jain
Aviation NEWS Reporter
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