Regarding airline medical kits. The FAA has recently issued rules that require domestic airlines to carry a small number of prescription medications for MD's to use. The first aid kits are just that, for first aid when someone is injured on the flight. It is unreasonable and impractical to imagine an airliner carrying sufficient trauma supplies to treat survivors of a crash. <br><br>Second issue is that of pyrotechnics. Life rafts that are USCG approved are required to carry a FEW signal flares. It is my understanding that none are required by the FAA. Certainly, the airliner does not keep a stock of flares stowed away anywhere.<br><br>Finally, is the issue of the crash in the Everglades. After reading accident reports in FAA publications, there were no survivors of the crash to die of shock. The aircraft impacted nose first in a near vertical dive and buried itself in the swamp. There were no survivors.<br><br>Jeffery S. Anderson, M.D.<br><br>