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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1961.

THE SIMPLE FACTS ABOUT AIR CRASH SURVIVAL

THE question airline operators have boon optimistically dodging for years como bang out into the open again last month.

Investigators reporting on the crash of a turbo-jet Electra into Boston harbour which killed 62, re- commended firmly that all passenger seats in planes should face backwards.

What happens to a passenger strapped to forward- facing seat in a crashing airliner? Experts at the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine ni Farn)- borough say

The legs snap into the fully extended position, the body jack-knifes round the seat belt. the hend erucks uncontrollably forward against anything that is in the way.

The sledge

If the legs catch under the seat in front, they are probably broken. The head, if it escapes ser- ious injury on the back of the seat in front, is often likely to be split open on the tray zipped into its container on the seat back.

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A DUCK

THE shooting of a duck

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hos caused a storm

among bird watchers.

For four years two ornitho- logists studied the bird that returned every winter to gravel pit at Sulton Courtenay. in Berkshire. They thought it raight be the lesser Scaup from America.

This year it did not return, Then the two awn - Harwell Belentists read that the bird had been SHOT last year.

ONLY WAY

The

marksman: Dr Ian Nisbet, a Cambridge physielst, who obtained permission 10 shoot it from the Nature Con- servancy. It was the only way to identify it," he said.

One of the Harwell men, Dr Charles Ford, said: "Shooting seetas throwback to the nine- teenth century. Efforts might have been made to capture it alive. After all, bird watching is supposed to be fun,'

Fun

the shooting established that the bird was Just a hybrick duck. Most people," said Dr Nisbet, "had got rather bored watching it,"

By JOHN ELLISON

Serious internal injuries usually result from being

thrown against the rigid belt.

Electra.

All these things happened to the 62 aboard the

All have been predicted for 16 years by the people

at Farnborough.

In a long series of experiments to analyse the survival factor in air crashes, they have hurtled dummies and human guinea-pigo down a rocket sledge ramp with violent decelleration at the end of it. And they say that without question there is a far greater chance of crash survival if the passen- gers are in properly designed rear-facing seats. As a result of these findings, RAF Transport Com- mand adopted rear-facing seats for all its big transport aircraft and insist on them in civil aircraft chartered for trooping flights. Why, then, do passengers on most of the 'major in-

ternational air companies still face forward? The first answer given by the airline operators is that most of us are happier looking the way we're

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going, and, since accidents are very rare anyway, we may as well stay that way and enjoy our- selves.

They also argue that most air accidents happen "on the slew" with the plane swinging to right or left. In this case, they say, at speed, one can just as easily be thrown out of rearward facing Beats a claim which the RAF disputes.

At Munich

There are two crashes which seem to support the

RAF theory. Seventy-six people escaped without serious injury when a Hermes airliner crushed into a railway embankment at Southend. They were all in rear-facing seats,

In the Manchester United disaster at Munich two years ago, 12 passengers in rear-facing senta (fitted for convenience rather than safety in BEA airliners) were all saved and only two seriously injured.

Whereas of the 25 passengers in the forward-facing

seats, 19 were killed.

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safety, three years ago put forward a plan to make rear-facing seats in airliners all over the world obligatory.

But when the proposal was rojected by other foreign airlines it was not thought reasonable to burden British operators with regulations which might hinder them in the competition for passengers, Why is there so much opposition among the big

operators to safer scating?

An aircraft-vent manufacturer said:- "Rear-facing seats are slightly heavier, because they incorporate a head rest and are bin, higher, and slightly more bulky than forward-facing ones. They are also more expensive,"

If they were fitted in a 100-sent airliner the payload

would thus be quite noticeably roduced,

Get in touch

International adoption of rear-facing seats would confront the air firms with a hefty bill for new scats. They say this would not deter them if they thought new seats would really be sufer, They should get in touch with the RAF In- stitute of Aviation Medicine, and the 76 survivors of the Hermes crash.

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EDDIE COMES

COMES HOME

HAVE you ever had a Fog Cutter? ... or a Planter's Punch? ... or a Missionary's Downfall? Have you ever sat down in a restaurant where crocodiles swim lazily in blue lagoons? Have you ever eaten a Bali Ha'i or a Bongo Bongo?

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You haven't? Then, according to mustachioed Eddie Brasil, you just haven't lived. Because Eddie is a restaurateur in the magni- ficent style, and he has just given up the manage- ment of one of the most-the Beachcomber in London's plush Mayfair Hotel.

Eddie managed the place for just a year after its opening. "And then I got out. When you're in some- thing big like that, you always get out when It is at its peak-at least I do."

The Beachcomber is a fantastic restaurant, built at a cost of £145,000, and the haunt of practically every big name in London.

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Eddle (centre) with his chefs stand behind a colourful, ezotic display of Polynestan food at the Beachcomber.

I prefer it to anything Europe can offer, and I love the 'PG''

Eddie Jatt Hongkong four years ago, after managing the

It is a huge replica of a tro- pical paradise, a place of bam- boo and Nowers, of rock pools and wrecked ships, of sunshine and sudden tropical rain storms, where maenws from South Amerienn rainforesta live armist

CHINA MAIL WRITER — confusion of jungle greenery and where

the made by native craftsmen in above-mentioned crocodies, Honolulu and Jired on urmy of He would but he doesn't want

Would he like to set them up? rare ones from the Nile-swim waitresses, put flowers in their to leave Hongkong for a long in their lagoons.

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and off for a number of years. He wanted to open a restaurant in Bangkok but opened one in Vancouver instead,"

hair and had them dressed in time yet, he has a job to do. Off-beat

Jong vividly-coloured Hawaiian Muu-Muus.

Famous

And the whole idea Wan Eddio'x. Edalo en mood.

Those queer sounding con- Eddle Drasil is the new coctions in the first paragraph? Jimmy's Kitchen and the Parl-

manager of the Parklan Grill. Those are some of the speclill- klau Grill, an old China hand.

"Emile Landau is going on The Maytale Hotel wanted

Atles of the Beachcomber, And long holiday, he has decided Eddie made up the names. Polyacstan Room and so they And with the opening of the that after all these years he imported Eddle from Vancouver Beachcomber, Eddle found that deserves a rest," said Eddie.

For Cultez ("If you are have more than abe was famous, managing WLS

driving don't his restaurant restaurant in the Waldorf Hotel, was mentioned in practically Colony for several weeks and in Punch and Missionary's Down- He has only been back in the one,” says the menu). Planter's Eddie is a fan of anything every paper and magazine in still only feeling the pulne

of fall lana had to buy a Polynesian, he loves the islands, London--he

are particularly potent

Ball Hai the tropics and the food, so he huge bound volume for all his the Colony. But he would like drinks,

and Bongo undertook the Beachcomber, and press clippings.

to change the "PC" "But don't Bongo are tropical salads. was given carte blanche.

the Beachcomber say anything yet, my plan Eddle Brasli loves the exotle.

aron't wild enough." And in just 11 weeks, in became the rage of Europe and

the colourful, the on-boat, but lengue with interior designers now. Eddie has been thrown "People might think it queer I don't think anyone needs to Novi | and builders, he got what he suggestions that Polynesian res that I left the Beachcomber worry. I doubt If we'll be wanted-"a_dream of a place", taurants would be sensational in for Hongkong, but I love the accing crocodiles fo the Ho ordered 2,000 wooden dishes Paris and Rome,

place. You just can't beat it, and Parision Grill

Overnight,

A. pretty Hongkong girl, Nina Robertson, who works

as the Beachcomber.