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Flight attendant foils kidnappers with flight attendant training skills
Heather Poole, Gadling's very own flight attendant who knows the moves to take care of herself and everyone else on a loaded plane, brought this China Daily article to our attention. In China, a flight attendant who two guys had kidnapped, got away by using the anti-hijacking techniques she learned in flight attendant training.
The attendant, an employee of Shanghai Airlines, learned -- in preparation for the Beijing Olympics -- how to stay calm, act obedient, keep the kidnappers engaged, discretely untie a rope, and make a run for it when the kidnappers weren't paying attention to her. According to the story, one of the men got into her car at a green light and forced her to pick up another man at a different location.
They took her bank card and her pin number. Her quick thinking probably saved her life. It turns out that, last July, these two guys killed a woman motorist they had kidnapped. This was discovered after she told the police what had happened and they were able to apprehend this pair.
As this story points out, one that is corroborated by Heather's Galley Gossip post on recurrent flight attendant training, flight attendants know the moves that make a difference in air travel. Maybe their theme song ought to be "Kung Fu Fighting." Everyone knows Kung Fu fighting, fast as lightning ... although in this case, rope skills and calm were the key ingredients.
Filed under: Stories, China, Airlines, News, Galley Gossip
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
frank96 Jan 8th 2009 8:37PM
Yay! Awesome!
I remember a few years ago in Recurrent Training. We listened to a 911 call. It was a Flight Attendant, who was being held hostage by her ex-husband. She had the know how to talk him into letting her use the phone, under the pretense to call and order a pizza. Instead, she dialed 911. At first the 911 operator thought she had the wrong number, but kept talking and talking until the operator realized something was wrong. The operator finally asked, "Are you ok?" She said, "no!--no! we dont want pepperoni. The operator continued, "Do you need help?" She replied, "yes, just one pizza." She stayed on the line long enough for the operator to track her number. The last thing you hear on the 911 recording is Police entering the house. She saved her own life by F/A training related to hijacking/hostage situations.
Lawrence Ward Jan 10th 2009 9:49PM
Don't you mean Kung Fu Flighting?
lita Jan 11th 2009 9:02PM
The term is fast as lightning, not lightening. The former is a weather condition related to atmospheric static discharge, the latter is a method for removing darkness from fabric, hair, photos, etc., and typically unrelated to static electricity. What a shame when someone tries to be clever and winds up looking silly by being tripped up by a spelling error. That's not very professional.
blah blah Jan 11th 2009 9:27PM
do we really care about the spelling?....we get the point. way to ruin a good story. someone always has to throw a wrench into the works
david Jan 11th 2009 11:23PM
lita = your typical retard who should have learned in grade school that the last four words of her paragraph do equal a true grammatically correct senctence.
Ya-Ya Jan 12th 2009 1:37AM
Lita: I, for one, am happy that you pointed the error out! I appreciate knowledge. :) Forget these losers.
carol Jan 12th 2009 4:41AM
Maybe they were in a hurry. It seems to me that you are the one who looks silly. You are trying to convey to everyone just how smart you are. But all you are doing is making yourself look superior to others and it isn't working for you. Read the comments and then do NOTHING.
hooot Jan 11th 2009 9:43PM
lita.... its also rude to correct people for tiny little spelling mistakes. But then you already knew that being the perfect little typist that you are.
duck Jan 11th 2009 10:01PM
you go hooot...
These on line spell checkers are a real pain in the behind, it must make them feel so superior to go around and correct everyone's mistakes and offer nothing to the topic at hand. Now that's not very professional. Give me a well trained flight attendant any day.
don Jan 11th 2009 9:58PM
flight attendants should all carry guns and have authority to shoot the low life passengers
don Jan 11th 2009 10:03PM
Liata your an ass, i feel sorry for your children and husband and any of your friends
Stan Kubrik Jan 11th 2009 10:30PM
Don, the actual phrase you are attempting is "Liata, YOU'RE an ass" - not "YOUR an ass." YOU'RE is a contraction of the two words YOU + ARE, and YOUR has to do with possesion. You've made an error common among Americans with menial, low-paying jobs at fast-food joints and sewage treatment plants. Let's send you back to the fourth grade for a little refresher course, what do you think?
Sharon Tate Jan 11th 2009 10:48PM
I wsih semonoe wluod hlep me wtih my slleinpg.
Brad Jan 11th 2009 10:59PM
What a bunch of idiots! Her name is Lita, not Liata.
Tiff Jan 11th 2009 11:32PM
I'm an idiot for reading these comments. I should have left after reading the article.
Shaido Jan 12th 2009 12:42AM
Does it matter? You people gimme a headache...
Aaanyways, that's a good point is to always stay calm, if you start flipping out and scream and the guy has a gun, he's gonna shoot you. If you stay calm and wait for an oppurtunity, it gives you a much higher chance of survival in most situations...
Miss Kim Jan 12th 2009 12:17AM
Well, please be careful when speaking ill of others, lest you choke on your own words. If there is not a F/A around to Heimlech Maneuver the words blocking oxygen from your tiny little brains, stay home and practice, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all". That is probably the best training I have received, period! As far as the training we receive to more or less protect and serve, we do it, and most of us do it well. Professionally and personally.
Bill Jan 12th 2009 12:21AM
It's undoubtedly true that some online spellcheckers sometimes not very politely correct the errors of others. I strongly believe, however, that many relatively uneducated impressionable people read the tainted postings and think they are seeing correct spellimgs, word usages, etc. And, no, I'm not a teacher/former teacher!
Chuck Jan 12th 2009 12:49AM
spellimgs, LOL!
Bill Jan 12th 2009 1:57AM
Thanks for going easy on me, Chuck!