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WTC risk factors in evacuation

by Jolyon on 27 January, 2009

Fascinating piece here on Science Daily about the findings of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health on factors that delayed the evacuation of the World Trade Center on 9/11.
The study concludes that there are three main issues: how long it takes to start the evacuation, how long it takes to complete the evacuation, and [...]

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Ryanair “No air” ?

by Jolyon on 26 August, 2008

The Guardian reports on a Ryanair emergency landing which put 16 in hospital in Limoges.
Most people, I think, while scared witless, would probably expect that every so often this sort of thing “just happens”. What is markedly less reassuring, somehow (though I can’t quite put my finger on why) is that few of the [...]

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