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This week’s Southwest Airlines fatality is a great reminder to listen to the safety demo before a flight

We’ve all done it.

As the flight attendant gives the standard safety demo before take off, you’re on your phone, listening to music or just staring out the window into space.

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It’s a demo you’ve heard many times, but how prepared are you if there’s an emergency like the one on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 on Tuesday.

“I’ve done the safety demo hundreds of times at work and each time I do it, only half of the passengers look up and watch,” tweeted flight attendant Nicole Froehling on Wednesday. “Please people, pay attention, it’s very important information.”

That showed on Tuesday, as a picture of passengers in the plane following its engine failure show nearly everybody wearing their oxygen masks improperly.

Although some have pointed out that the masks seem to small to fit over both your mouth and nose, that’s the only way they’ll be effective in the case of an emergency.

With Tuesday’s possibly preventable fatality in mind, Froehling isn’t the only flight attendant stepping forward to ask passengers to pay more attention during the brief safety demo.

“Today, I was reminded why our flight attendant training is so important,” tweeted Andrea Tullos on Tuesday. “Anything can happen at any given time.”

“Please watch the safety demo and please know that our jobs are so much more than just pouring cokes at 30,000 ft.”



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