Finding the right stuff in the deep end

Here's an old
joke: I'm not afraid of flying. It's crashing that worries me.

Last month I
climbed into a flight suit, got strapped inside a Modular Egress Training
Simulator (METS, for short), and lowered into a 100,000-gallon tank of water.
Then I was rolled 180 degrees so I was upside-down.

The point
this, other than determining if my flight suit should have a diaper, was to
a taste of what it's like to exit a plane that has just crashed in water. I
spending the day at Survival...

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Published on May 23, 2010 04:21
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