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I've toured the American Airlines Flight Academy near Dallas-Ft.Worth airport.  To contrast, an exercise like this would have been done in an actual aircraft fuselage/cabin, which is mounted at the edge of a specially built pool, at the level it would really be sitting in after a ditching.  Everyone would be sitting in real airline seats, would have to remove the emergency exit door, deploy the life rafts and then all exit through that emergency opening directly into the pool.  And unlike the nearly 9 minutes elapsed in those first two videos, if EVERYONE wasn't out of the plane with life vests on, into the water and probably into the raft inside of 60 seconds, it would be considered a failure and have to be repeated.

Really enlightening - and scary - watching those videos with the mindset of a frequent flier and imagining how that could possibly train those flight attendants in much of anything.