CABIN CREW | Module 9 – Safety and Emergency Procedures

9.4 Emergency Equipment

1. Aircraft emergency evacuation devices, doors and emergency exits, are equipped with ___
and ___ to assist passengers and crew in exiting the aircraft in an emergency.
➢ slides, slides/rafts

2. List at least 5 items in the survival kits.

➢ Canopy
➢ Bailing Bucket and Sponges
➢ Life Raft and Survival Manual
➢ First Aid Kit
➢ Raft Repair Kit
➢ Water Storage Containers
➢ Signaling Devices
➢ Flashlight and batteries
➢ Sea Dye Marker

3. Match the types of fire fighting equipment and their use.

A) Needed to fight fires in difficult to reach areas. 1. Halon Extinguishers

B) An automatic fire extinguishers in the waste containers. These 2. Water Fire

extinguishers are activated by heat. Extinguisher

C) An extinguisher that uses water to cool the fuel of the fire and 3. Smoke Hood/Portable
removing the heat. It should only be used on fires of paper, Breathing Equipment
material or ordinary combustibles that are not near or around
flammable liquids or electricity.

D) Provide early warning to a lavatory fire and the presence of 4. Fire/Crash Axe
smoke.

E) A liquefied gas agent that deprives the fire of oxygen. In general 5. Lavatory Smoke
this type of extinguisher is recommended for fires involving Detectors
flammable liquids and electrical fires.

F) A self contained, portable personal breathing device that protects 6. Automatic Lavatory
you from the effects of smoke, carbon dioxide, harmful gas and Fire Extinguishers
oxygen deficiency while fighting an in-flight fire.
➢ A) 4, B) 6,
➢ C) 2, D) 5,
➢ E) 1, F) 3.

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CABIN CREW | Module 9 – Safety and Emergency Procedures
9.4 Emergency Equipment

4. Explain the different uses of evacuation devices during land and water evacuation.
➢ In a land evacuation, passengers and crew evacuate by sliding down the device and then
move away from the aircraft for safety.

➢ In a water evacuation, the slide/raft becomes a flotation device, which the passengers and
crew get into. Once the passengers board the raft it is then released from the aircraft.

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