Best to be fit enough to go to the exit over the seats.
Some of that may be hysterical behavior of people in shock. When the going gets rough some folks want to see and clutch their possessions closely. It takes a stern though diplomatic fight attendant to take control and get them out asap, bag or no bag.
They didn’t want to leave their souvenirs from Circus Circus behind.
I don't mind dying when I'm due but I hate thinking I would die due to some nincompoops...
I’d be shoutin’
Nobody in here is gonna DIE so you can save your damn toothbrush!!!
A construction worker was finishing up in the outdoor toilet when his Carhartt jacket fell through the hole.
He had been gone a while and one of his coworkers came looking for him.
It was dark of course but when the coworker opened the door he saw the man fishing around with his arm down the hole to the shoulder.
He explained what had happened and his coworker, disgusted, said,
“You really don’t plan on keeping it after that do you?”
And the man replied, “Oh no! But my lunch is in it.”
I think this is normalization bias- things are changing rapidly and you still think things are normal.
Believe me, it happens.
I had an emergency evacuation with an engine fire on the ground and instead of running for the exits, people were popping open the bins to grab their huge suitcases they stuffed tightly in the overheads.
They could do me a service and burn all my luggage. The three of us went away for a couple weeks this summer. When I carried my bag into the hall to leave I saw my wife had five bags plus a backpack.
I told her she had to leave three bags but she said she could not remember which bag had what so we had to move in parts all the way with all these bags.
Then we hired a service to pick up three bags and deliver them home for the return trip but four more bags were added from buying stuff there and we had to buy the extra luggage bags too. Some are still packed.
I remember the news videos of the exit at the nightclub that caught fire because of the fireworks.
People were piled one on top of another with their heads out the door.
Somebody must have tripped, and everyone just fell on top of that person.
Your crap can be replaced. You can’t. And if folks die behind you while you needed your stupid laptop in the overhead in your overstuffed carryon four people had to help you cram in there, that took you thirty seconds to yank out, have fun with that mental baggage if you have a soul.
Flight attendants should go row by row getting people out and be the last ones out. Captain is ultimately the last one out. FA identifies as captains representative as the captain is busy managing control of the emergency.
Passengers are told whatever legal consequences to endangering lives by obstructing aisle will be taken cameras activated or tell those who want to get their bags to sit until the smart ones get off
A guy’s voice or a girls voice. Nurses are majority girls. They can handle these mass emergencies famously. They just need to know procedure and exude confidence
They should all see the film of the Rhode Island night club. Not every panicked person can get out at once. One row at a time and swiftly. That’s it or everyone burns alive in a pile
That the attendants allowed people to get their bags in this situation is horrifically out of order. And it is not because they were women attendants
That’s not right
I’ll quote. A friend on his way into a military academy off to a stellar career, the officer interviewer said, you know they’re letting women into the academies now. Will you have problems taking orders from a woman?
No hesitation, he said, I’ve been taking orders from my mother for 18 years. I don’t think that will be a problem, sir
No news on pets who may have been onboard.
When I fly my camera is in my lap. I’d take that as far as I could; everything else can just cook.
