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Dude, that's messed up
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
If, like me, you were curious about what "disaster" is referring to, it's basically this:
The flight attendants are told to prioritize guard orders over prisoner safety (aka keep them in chains). And they have no evacuation protocols. If the plane crashes or people need to parachute out, the prisoners will be left for dead.
Y'all think flight attendants are just regularly jumping out of planes when things go wrong?!
I think the purpose of a parachute is so that it can be used in an emergency, yes.
Yeah but passenger airliners aren't equipped with parachutes. I think what you probably mean is in an emergency evacuation then the passengers will be left behind while attendants jump down the slides.
I did not know that. Good to know.
The vast majority of parachutes are not