What The Flight Attendant Phrase Of

A cabin-crew callout heard before pushback and departure—“Cabin crew: arm the doors and cross-check”—is a timed, two-part emergency-preparation instruction tied to evacuation slides. The phrase tells each crew member to set their assigned door into automatic or “armed” mode, a process that varies by aircraft. On Airbus A320-family jets, the arming lever is secured with a safety pin using a pin-lever-pin method; on some Boeing 737 configurations, crew physically attach the girt bar to the floor bracket. Once armed, the slides are positioned to fall out and inflate within six to ten seconds if a door opens.