Aircraft safety card

An aircraft safety card is a document instructing passengers on an aircraft about the procedures for dealing with various emergency conditions that might arise during the flight.

The safety cards are usually provided by airlines on all commercial flights, usually located in the back of the seat in front of each passenger. Pre-flight safety demonstrations, either conducted by the flight attendants or through a video presentation, instruct passengers to familiarize themselves with the safety cards prior to take-off.

The cards are frequently laminated or made of plastic and contain instructions that are specific to the model of the airplane in which they are found. The contents are usually in the form of pictures, graphically illustrating such procedures as buckling the seat belts, bracing for impact in an airplane crash, dealing with depressurization, opening the emergency exit door or inflating life rafts in the event of a water landing. The graphic representation allows the cards to be accessible to those speaking a different language from the flight attendants, as well as to children and illiterate passengers.

The Federal Office of Civil Aviation has published a guide recommending the use of certain symbols and pictograms to standardize the safety cards used by airlines. In addition to normal safety cards, some airlines in the rows of seats at the emergency exits above the wings additional maps that specifically indicate the correct operation of these emergency exits.

Aircraft safety cards are a collectible item among the aviation enthusiast community, since they are a reflection of an airline, an aircraft type, a culture, and a historical period. The removal from board an aircraft is prohibited as it is part of the emergency equipment of the aircraft. Expedient and most promising is to ask the cabin crew for a card.

Overview
Normally it is prepared in the pocket of the seat of the aircraft (some cheap airlines have stickers written with the contents of the safety bookmark in front of the seat), emergency response and prohibition Items are described. It is produced for each model. As evacuation routes, door opening methods, oxygen mask usage, etc. are different depending on the model, all passengers must take a look at emergency correspondence guidance and safety videos by cabin crews before takeoff It has been demanded.

In most airlines, both domestic and English are written together (called “Safety Instructions” or “Aircraft safety card” in English), as well as main languages ​​such as Spanish, French, Japanese and German There are cases where it is described. Many airline companies also prepare Braille versions, mainly for major airlines such as Japan Airlines, British Airways and American Airlines. Pictures, pictures and pictograms are frequently used so that passengers understanding easily in emergency and foreign languages ​​such as English can not understand contents.

In developed countries including Japan, it is obligated by law to regularly prepare the maximum number of passengers for all passenger aircraft (including seats for freighter shippers and other facilities for Japanese government) Has been done. For this reason, in all airlines in the world, taking out from the cabin is forbidden, but as a result of retirement of machinery and revision of contents, items released as unused items are traded among passenger aircraft enthusiasts, specialized Collectors also exist.

In-flight safety video
Also in conjunction with a paper safety notebook, an in-flight safety video will be screened immediately before takeoff, or an explanation and demonstration on flight safety by cabin crew will be conducted. The latter is often done mainly by small machines that do not have video screening equipment, cheap airlines, etc. However even if there is video equipment, cabin crews may demonstrate according to the images.

The contents are almost the same as the safety bookmark, and in the case of the video system, explanation is usually made in the mother tongue and the English by the country belonging to the airline company and even if the broadcast language is not understood, the contents can be understood by just seeing the video It has become. In recent years, from the viewpoint of barrier-free, subtitles and sign language images are also inserted. Also, there are cases where a dubbed version for each language is prepared by the airline company.

In the case of in-flight safety video, the position and the number of emergency exits are different for each model of the aircraft, so it is often produced for each model (as an exception, Japan Airlines broadcasts the same image in all models adopting the video system (However, it is different for domestic and international flights.) For example, it explains that an emergency exit can be confirmed by “a bookmark of safety”).

In order to make it more attractive recently, demonstration of cabin attendants incorporating safe videos (Starflyer, New Zealand Airlines etc.) that emphasizes entertainment, and rap like Southwest Airlines, from stiff and uniform content I got to see ingenuity, etc.

Main description content
Attention on takeoff and landing
Emergency response
Emergency exit position
How to open an emergency exit / door
How to use oxygen mask
Safety attitude approach
How to use life jacket
Prohibited items in the plane
Other notes

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