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99% Invisible

In The Unlikely Event

Nov 18, 2020 · 30 min · Episode 422 · 29.4 MB
0:00-30:25

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If you’ve ever flown on a plane, you’ve been directed to study the safety briefing card in your seatback pocket. Every passenger plane, commercial or private, has to have safety cards on board. Mo Laborde is a reporter who has been collecting safety cards for almost ten years, and one day she started wondering how the modern safety card came about.

In The Unlikely Event

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