Lessons Learned from Helios

Captain Danny Barrowclough

How Thomas Cook considered the Helios accident in recurrent training

The opportunity to review and alter SOP’s both for Cabin Crew and Pilots

Current procedures which are a change since the Helios accident.

How Thomas Cook considered the Helios accident in recurrent training

•Use the initial findings

•Wait until the full and final report is published.

Winter recurrent 2005 / 2006

Winter 2006/2007 recurrent

Helios B737 update

How Thomas Cook considered the Helios accident in recurrent training

The opportunity to review and alter SOP’s both for Cabin Crew and Pilots

The Merger

Winter 2007 - 2008

Risk Analysis

How Thomas Cook considered the Helios accident in recurrent training

The opportunity to review and alter SOP’s both for Cabin Crew and Pilots

Current procedures which are a change since the Helios accident.

Current procedures which are a change to some or all of the crews

•Pilots

‘This is the Captain put on your oxygen masks, we are descending to a lower altitude’

Followed by either…

‘This is the Captain passengers and crew remain on oxygen’

or

‘The descent is now complete. Will the senior report to the flight deck’.

Current procedures which are a change to some or all of the crews

•Pilots

•Cabin Crew

PA’s from Flight Crew included in B1 manual

Once on oxygen Cabin Crew to shout instructions to passengers ‘put on mask, fasten seatbelts’

Expansion of Cabin Crew decompression drill to ensure that a member of crew gets on crew oxygen and enters the flight deck using the emergency code. If necessary to administer oxygen

Emergency door entry code changed

Instructions for radio operation included in the B1 Safety and Survival Manual.

Emergency use of the radio for each aircraft type.

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