Airline cabin crew are told the same , all that safety briefing preflight is a legal requirement in aviation law and in shipping the same brief under maritime law but when it comes to a life threatening situation where potentially a crew member could die, would you really risk your life to get a 22 stone man from seat 14 D when the plane is going to explode or sink?
But there are heroic tales of pilots knowing they will cop it and flew their doomed aircraft away from conurbation areas , check out CVR and listen to their final words.
Larry , we are going down as in the Washington DC crash where they were delayed by snow and ice .
They used the reverse thrust to reverse off the terminal as couldn’t wait for a tug .
Foreign object debris was sucked in the engines resulting in catastrophic engine destruction and loss of power over the river .