RE: [californiadisasters] Re: most sensible article on the plane crash in San Francisco.

On the local news, a couple leaving the hospital were dragging their luggage behind them. I was appalled when I saw that. I've started trying to see if anyone else wasted time getting it.

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From: Lila <lilahayes@hotmail.com>
Date: 07/09/2013 12:49 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [californiadisasters] Re: most sensible article on the plane crash in San Francisco.


 

I haven't looked at much footage... did people really take their carry on luggage or did they just grab their backpacks and/or purses? Whether or not I bring an actual suitcase on the plane I usually also bring a backpack to put under my seat that I can put my purse and/or devices in. When evacuating I can't imagine going to an overhead bin to grab a suitcase but I *CAN* imagine grabbing my backpack.

--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, "jim rawls" <jazzpiano@...> wrote:
>
> I thought this was very well written and wanted to share it with the group.
> Smith: What happened aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214? A pilot's perspective
> Published: July 8, 2013 5:10 PM
> By PATRICK SMITH, Slate
>
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> Meanwhile, looking at some of the footage from Saturday, I was appalled by the number of passengers who chose to evacuate the burning aircraft with their carry-on luggage. We've seen this in several on-the-runway evacuations in recent years. I understand that reaching for one's valuables is human nature, and that people don't always behave rationally in a crisis, but lugging your carry-ons down the aisle in the middle of an emergency evacuation, when seconds can mean the difference between life and death, is reckless. You're endangering your own life and the lives of those people behind you. And those escape slides are much higher and steeper than it appears on television. They are not designed with convenience in mind. They are there to get a planeload of people out of, and away from, the aircraft as quickly as possible - without their belongings. When you slide, you slide very fast, and jumping into a slide with your belongings places physical obstacles directly in the path of others.
>
> Although cabin crew are trained to command people to leave their things behind, there's only so much they can do without slowing things down even further.

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