Flightster Friday: The Fake Medical Emergency

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Most passengers forget that flight attendants aren’t primarily on-board to serve you a coke and constantly remind you to fasten your seat belt and turn your phones off. In fact, we’re also there for your safety.. But luckily, you never realize that until something happens.

The majority of our training program that we must complete before being allowed to set foot on an airplane revolves around safety. A big portion of training is focused on evacuating an aircraft in the event of an emergency land or water landing, but a portion just as large is spent on medical emergencies.

Flight attendants are trained in noticing, diagnosing and treating ailments on the plane. Think about it, if something happens to you or a loved one at 35,000ft, whose going to help them? We are.

Click here to continue reading this article on Flightster. Find out what happened during my fake medical emergency on board a flight to New York’s JFK.

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