2 recent airline accidents show those preflight videos save lives when followed

If you’ve flown recently you’ve probably watched — wait, who am I kidding, failed to watch — an airline’s preflight safety video. And look, I get it. You didn’t watch because nothing ever happens. Until it does, as it did at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 2, when a Japan Airlines Airbus A350 struck a military aircraft upon landing, and five days later when a large piece of an Alaska Airlines 737 ripped away from the fuselage at 16,000 feet. The fact that all 379 passengers and crew safely escaped the burning JAL aircraft with just a few minor injuries, and that no one was sucked out of the 737...