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escape chute

escape slide

An emergency chute that inflates rapidly and permits crew and passengers a quick exit from the aircraft. Also called an escape chute. See escape hatch.
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The mayor gave fire brigade different fire extinguishing and rescue equipment including five positive pressure ventilators/smoke extractors, one jumping cushion for emergency rescue operations, one vertical spiral escape chute, one decontamination tent, decontamination shower system, 25 complete Nomex firefighting suits with boots, 25 fire helmets, 25 leather gloves and 25 respirators with full face piece and 25 others with half face piece.
All passengers and crew on board the NL-142 Karachi to Lahore flight remained unhurt and were evacuated via emergency escape chute, but the aircraft's landing gear, windows and right wing were damaged in the landing.
The Boeing 737 with 121 people on board skidded off the runway soon after landing, about 1,000 feet short from the end into a grassy patch 70 feet west of the runway at Allama Iqbal International Airport (AIIAP).All passengers and crew on board the NL-142 Karachi to Lahore flight remained unhurt and were evacuated via emergency escape chute, but the aircraft's landing gear, windows and right wing were damaged in the landing.
A swimming pool with latest survival technology, helicopter simulator, escape chute, confined space entry simulator on two levels with two points of entry and rescue tripods and equipment, a smoke house simulator on two levels with spiral and straight stair cases and synthetic smoke machine, a working-at-height facility, a H2S classrooms with air cascade facility, a fast rescue boat, advanced first-aid kits, stretchers oxygen tanks for first-aid and advance first aid, scaffolding and riggers for constructions training are some of the facilities available," remarked Mohammed.
In May this year there was an extension completed which now puts Enertech in the leading position with 15 fully-equipped classrooms, a swimming pool with the latest survival system, a helicopter simulator and escape chute, confined space entry simulator on two levels with two points of entry and rescue tripods and equipment, a smoke house simulator on two levels with spiral and straight staircases and synthetic smoke machine, a working at heights facility, an H2S classroom with cascade air supply system, a fast rescue boat, a first aid classroom with advanced first aid kits, stretchers, oxygen tanks, mannequins and AEDs etc.
Featuring a 4.5-metre deep environmental pool, a fire training centre, an escape chute designed to meet the standards of Norway's off-shore industry and a lifeboat and davit system, the facility has been designed to provide an ultra-lifelike setting in which workers will learn survival techniques for scenarios such as a helicopter ditching at sea or escaping from a smoke-filled environment.
The safety drill we endure on every flight to show passengers how to locate and fasten life jackets with a reminder to remove shoes before entering the escape chute is futile.
The company's commercial director, Richard Parr, said the EU regulations - governing planes carrying 19 or more passengers, required measures which were not necessary on the DC-3, including an emergency escape chute, floor lighting and weather radar.
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