{"id":2248,"date":"2006-03-28T08:13:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T08:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2006-03-28T08:13:26","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T08:13:26","slug":"evacuating_a_90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2248","title":{"rendered":"Evacuating a 900+ Seat Airplane in 90 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizbuzzmedia.com\/blogs\/flight_international\/archive\/2006\/03\/26\/1684.aspx\">Kieran Daly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It&#8217;s Sunday morning and as usual I&#8217;m wearing a numbered bib and doing agility tests in an aircraft hangar with 1,000 Germans I&#8217;ve never met before!<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll have guessed, the one thing we had in common is that we all thought it sounded interesting to be a volunteer in the first &#8211; and probably only &#8211; evacuation trial of the A380.<\/p>\n<p>So here we are on a miserable, wet airfield in one of the biggest hangars in Europe at Airbus&#8217; Finkenwerder production facility next to the River Elbe.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m number 873, proud of it, and with a white bib numbered in black to prove it. We hand in everything in our possession which, though I don&#8217;t realise it then, is going to make the next five hours pass very slowly indeed.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kieran Daly: It&#8217;s Sunday morning and as usual I&#8217;m wearing a numbered bib and doing agility tests in an aircraft hangar with 1,000 Germans I&#8217;ve never met before! As you&#8217;ll have guessed, the one thing we had in common is that we all thought it sounded interesting to be a volunteer in the first &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}