https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8220ffe0-b64f-4252-b2a9-e727f5d4f367 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This 1958 declassified color film from the United States Air Force (TF 1-5271b) offers evacuation safety tips for pilots and air crews facing emergency landing scenarios on passenger airliners traveling over water (TRT 15:05). Opening titles. The seal of the U.S. Department of the Air Force. “Preparation and Evacuation for Air Crews” (0:10). A propeller-driven, USAF four-engine Lockheed Constellation (C-69) airliner (0:36). A four-engine C-130 Hercules with red trim (0:50). A Military Air Transport Service (MATS) DC-6 (known as the C-118 Liftmaster in United States Air Force service and as the R6D in United States Navy service prior to 1962 and afterwards as C-118) on a runway. Crew members board the craft (0:57). A uniformed stewardess or flight attendant prepares the cabin for travel, checking that emergency kits with life jackets are present in seat back pouches. Another woman checks a clipboard. Life rafts are checked (1:14). A pre-flight safety demonstration by the two flight attendants. The location of the raft is indicated (1:47). The plane takes off from an empty airstrip (2:10). One attendant studies a manual: “Aircraft Emergency Procedures Over Water” (2:26). Jumping dials on a pilot’s instrument panel indicate engine trouble. An engine propeller slows to a stop. The aircraft commander gives orders (3:03). Smoke is seen through a passenger’s window. Another engine dies. The commanding pilot makes an announcement (3:45). An elderly woman passenger looks fearful. A young boy registers concern. Passengers rush to retrieve emergency kits (4:16). A flight attendant helps a man put on his life vest (4:57). A young man paralyzed with fright is helped into a life jacket. A man discards a hazardous pen from his pocket. Another removes a necktie, another eyeglasses (5:26). Women and men remove their shoes (6:24). Straps of a life jacket are adjusted. Men move to the rear of the plane. A young boy is seated with his parents. Able bodied men are paired with women and the disabled (6:36). The mechanical lock of an emergency exit door. A woman moves her seat to an upright position and grips her armrests (7:51). Men buckle their seatbelts, then lean forward into pillows (8:38). Loose luggage is secured (8:53). A flight attendant indicates escape routes (9:45). Concerned and apprehensive passengers, young and old (10:07). The pilot flips switches to depressurize the cabin. The emergency key is activated (10:33). Water approaches. Passengers brace for impact. Splashdown (11:05). Men open emergency exits and prepare liferafts. Rafts are carried out on a wing exit and inflated (11:19). Passengers exit into rafts. A resistant woman is pushed. A dazed man is retrieved from the cabin (12:26). Men use an escape rope to exit (13:07). A swimming man inflates his lifejacket and struggles to continue swimming (13:40). The passengers and crew sit about a raft, waiting. Women wave excitedly to a plane overhead. A man launches flare. A rescue ocean liner arrives (14:15). End titles: “United States Air Force Air Photographic and Charting Service (MATS), Frederick K. Rockett Co.” (14:53). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5usj0VE26k Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:24:46 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8220ffe0-b64f-4252-b2a9-e727f5d4f367 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.