We\u2019ve heard all of it earlier than,\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019re only a glorified waiter\/waitress within the sky\u201d<\/em>. \u2018Cart-tarts\u2019, \u2018Flight-deck floozies\u2019, my weblog even manufacturers us\u00a0\u2018Trolley Dollies\u2019. True, we serve meals, pour tea and low, clear up after our beloved passengers and all the pieces else in between.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I sincerely hope for the remainder of my flying profession that that is all I’ve to do on board an plane. The fact is, we as Cabin Crew, Flight Attendants, Stewards or Stewardesses are SO far more than that. I pray that passengers by no means really must see me do my actual job. If they do, it signifies that one in all them is in poor health, or one thing has occurred to the plane, and I’m utilizing among the many expertise I realized throughout my intensive coaching to save lots of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Saturday, July 6, 2013, the crew of\u00a0Asiana Airlines Flight 214<\/strong>, from Seoul Incheon Airport (ICN) to San Francisco (SFO), used these expertise and their very own professionalism to save lots of the lives of 288 passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Onboard the Boeing 777-200ER (HL7742) have been 291 passengers and 16 crew members. The 10-hour flight from Seoul had been uneventful. As the plane started its closing descent into SFO, the crew ready the cabin for arrival, took their leap seats and started finishing up their 30-second evaluate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During take-off and touchdown, the \u2018essential phases\u2019 of flight, the crew run by way of their emergency procedures and what we’d do if the worst have been to occur. What instructions would we be shouting? What would we be doing with our doorways? What tools would we take off the plane with us? Etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Cabin Manager that day was 40-year-old\u00a0Lee Yoon-Hye<\/strong>. She had labored for Asiana for almost 20 years and has since been hailed as one of many many heroes of that fateful flight.<\/p>\n\n\n Speaking after the crash, Yoon-Hye stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRight earlier than landing I felt just like the airplane was making an attempt to take-off. I used to be pondering \u2018what\u2019s occurring?\u2019 after which I felt a bang, that bang felt more durable than a standard touchdown. It was a really large shock. Afterwards there was one other shock and the airplane swayed to the best and to the left.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Details later emerged of the ultimate, terrifying moments earlier than the 777 impacted the runway, as one of many pilots tried to provoke a go-around realising the plane was coming in too low and too gradual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But it was too late. The airplane\u2019s undercarriage impacted the ocean wall earlier than the fuselage slammed onto the runway. Both engines, the tail and horizontal stabilisers, have been sheared off because the jet spun 360 levels earlier than coming to relaxation by the facet of runway 28L. Horrified onlookers might solely watch as an enormous fireball briefly erupted upon affect, adopted by a darkish plume of smoke because the plane got here to a halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nA Flight Like Any Other<\/h2>\n\n\n\n