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part of the passenger compartment. Please don’t forget to but the door when you use them.
    On the left hand and right hand sides, there are two emergency exits. Please use only them at emergency situation.
    During the flight, our crews will serve you with free cold and hot drinks, sweets, newspapers, magazines, etc. as well as delicious food only at meal time.
    The cabin is seated by heighten pressure, so please do not knock and carve the window glass in account of your safety. During take-off, land or bump of air plane, please fasten your safety belt.
    WHY PASSENGERS MUST FASTEN THEIR SAFETY BELTS ON BOARD OF CIVIL PLANES?
    Before civil planes take off and land, the hostess always ask passengers fasten their safety belts, Why?
    Civil planes, although flying in the air, must depend on the ways to take off and land. During this course the aircrew maybe restricted by some factors, then it’s hard to avoid accidents, for example, obstecles on the runway and failure of planes. etc. For these reasons, the aircrew has to take emergency measures, and stop the flight. And then if you don’t fasten your safety belts, you’ll be injured by strong inertia and resistance of the planes, even though special accidents don’t occur.
    In order to reduce the air resistance, planes fly ordinaryly above the atmospheric layer. When planes fly through fogs and clouds, serious jolt will occur because of strong air current. At that time, if you don’t fasten your safety belts, you’ll be injured. Due to igovance of safety many passenger have taken blood lesson before.
    So please fasten your seat belt properly for your life safe, when planes take off, land and bump.
    While passengers are working out how to use their presents and what to do if there should be one of those ‘hard to avoid failure of planes’ etc, the stewardesses come around with what the CAAC postcard described as: ‘delicious food only at meal time.’
    Either the person who wrote this had a terrific sense of humour or there is something seriously wrong with his or her taste buds. I suspect the latter.
    The meal always comes in a cardboard box which has an imaginative route map on the back with maps of planes going all over China in every direction – even to places where there are no airports. The box contains a greenish egg, a variety of dry pastries with unidentifiable contents and a plastic bag of vacuum-packed pickled vegetables labelled ‘CSWA fly food’.
    The health warning that CAAC prints in the in-flight magazine, advising passengers not to overeat is unnecessary.
    DO NOT EAT TOO MUCH BY AIRPLANE
    If you fly with civil airplane, please do not eat too much. On board, there will be a little blood-supply for stomach, then the secretion of gastric juice will be decreased, and stomach peristalsis will be slowed down, which will be unfavourable for the digestion.
    In the other hand, much air will get into your stomach, if you eat too much on board. And due to the lower pressure in the air, passengers eating too much will be liable to sickness, vomiting, abdominal distension and pain, etc. It is better that passengers take food one hour before the flight, and only underfed. And do not take food that will produce much air.
    Anyone overeating on this food would qualify for CAAC’s other travel advisory:
    These years, some sick and wounded passengers were critically ill or died on board of airplanes or in the waiting room of airport. Therefore sick and wounded passengers must think that the airport. Therefore, sick and wounded passengers must think that the airplane will be suitable for you.
    I must say that there have been tremendous improvements since my first flights on CAAC. The cardboard box now has a seal and a date stamped on it – so that you can check it is on its first flight with CAAC. This prevents problems occurring, such as that which happened to a group of tourists who arrived in Lhasa after a short visit