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Glad I'm not the only one to have this question.
1 posted on 07/08/2013 7:55:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Selfish me me me attitudes or they had no idea how bad it was i know i could they not know


2 posted on 07/08/2013 7:57:12 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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Just a guess.....you couldn’t evacuate but so quickly anyway...you’re crammed into the aisle...not moving...why not grab your bag - especially if it contains a laptop with key info, etc. Again, just a theory...I was not there and thank God have never been in that situation.


3 posted on 07/08/2013 7:57:21 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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If there is time to grab your bag, you grab your bag

I dont see why anyone is making it an issue


4 posted on 07/08/2013 7:58:46 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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Asian culture related?

Don’t know.


6 posted on 07/08/2013 7:59:25 AM PDT by Hulka
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Factor into this, the fact that it takes a number of people a fair amount of time to get out the exits. While waiting, the natural response based upon exiting a plane dozens of times is to stand up and grab your bag.

To try and get people to leave their bags is counter to the training that they have received and acted upon dozens to hundreds of times on prior flights.


7 posted on 07/08/2013 7:59:31 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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People do weird things in life or death stress situations. Especially if its their first time in such a situation. Don’t expect anyone to act rationally in times like that.


8 posted on 07/08/2013 8:00:10 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Government: Slimy used car salesmen writing laws forcing you to buy their cars)
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Or...they looked around themselves as they were waiting in line to go out the escape slide, saw that the fire either had not started yet or was slow to spread, and simply pulled their bag out of the overhead bin as they passed by...probably figuring they the luggage would either be destroyed or never be seen again.

That's all I can figure.

If it was an orderly evacuation, that took a few minutes for people to proceed in line to go down the slides, I bet that is probably what happened.

11 posted on 07/08/2013 8:00:59 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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Looking at the picture from inside the cabin, the overhead bins may have popped open on impact and spilled their carryons.


13 posted on 07/08/2013 8:05:25 AM PDT by red-dawg
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Yeah, the passengers are the true villains. < /sarc >
16 posted on 07/08/2013 8:07:00 AM PDT by Sloth (Rather than a lesser Evil, I voted for Goode.)
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because they are conditioned sheep?


17 posted on 07/08/2013 8:07:52 AM PDT by Revelation 911 (hump scratching n'er do well.....all strung out on chicken wings and venison jerky)
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Were they grabbing their under seat luggage or did they take time to pop open the overhead bin and search through it for their luggage? I might be tempted to grab the bag under my seat on the way out, by reflex if nothing else. I would never waste time digging through the overhead.
19 posted on 07/08/2013 8:07:57 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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When I traveled my carry on contained everything I needed to do my job as well as a change of clothes. I’m still not sure I’d grab it but I guess if I had the time why not.


20 posted on 07/08/2013 8:08:12 AM PDT by KirbDog
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I read several reports that said that during the Katrina rescue operation it was common for people to insist on taking their pets with them in the lifeboats that came for them and that many refused to get in without the pets.It was said (by rescuers,IIRC) that many people couldn't be rescued because pets took up the room that people could have used.

Stupid ain't the word for that...or this.

21 posted on 07/08/2013 8:08:22 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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You play like you practice. Have these passengers ever practiced an emergency evacuation where they are taught to NOT take their bag? No. Have they practiced normal evacuations (i.e. normal exiting of planes) where they DO take their bags. Yes.

If you want this not to happen you’d have to train people do behave in a particular way it seems to me. And I don’t see a practical way to accomplish this.


28 posted on 07/08/2013 8:19:09 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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This has been common in air disasters. People operate unthinking on automatic. When they get up they’re trained to pick up their baggage. I only recall one stewardess addressing this in her safety speech.

This is why I always try to sit in the exit row. In essence, people are unthinking automatons.


29 posted on 07/08/2013 8:21:43 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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And they were probably staring at their cell phones as they slid down the emergency exit ramp.


33 posted on 07/08/2013 8:29:36 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Who knows how any one would react in an emergency? Besides that, isn’t it possible the bags got tossed into the aisles in an emergency landing?


35 posted on 07/08/2013 8:30:59 AM PDT by grania
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Everybody doesn’t exit immediately - there’s a queue, and I’d probably grab my bag, too, if I had a chance to without delaying the evacuation.


36 posted on 07/08/2013 8:31:22 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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On the same line of thinking, how many of those passengers took a little longer doing something—getting out of their seats, moving through the cabins, sliding down the ramps or otherwise exiting the planes, or even evacuating the area afterwards because they were texting, talking, or videoing something on their phones?


37 posted on 07/08/2013 8:31:44 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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If I were the King of Airlines carry on luggage would be banned.


39 posted on 07/08/2013 8:34:45 AM PDT by clintonh8r ("Europe was created by history. America was created by a philosophy." Baroness Thatcher)
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