Which would be an incredibly selfish thing to do. During an emergency vacate of an aircraft, ALL passengers are able to disembark within 90 seconds per FAA certifications. Six doors and slides are opened, it is not like a normal landing and all passengers file out one door to the jetway.
In my opinion, and every person who is an actual aviation professional, there is NO EXCUSE for grabbing your luggage after an accident like this, even if your bag cost $5000.
There are photos showing some passengers carrying 2 bags and more with them right after the slide. That would no doubt slow things down, the aisle is only so wide.
I only hope those people did such an incredibly selfish act through shock, and not selfishness and greed.
Or at least stay seated till the everyone else has had a chance to get out, then if it lights up you've only cooked yourself. In that type of situation there might not be a fire the moment the plane stops but the belly tank is underneath the wing spar, who knows if it's started leaking JP4 and is moments away from ignition..
I see your point, but even then you are risking the Flight Attendant who would probably come and try to help you thinking you are stuck or whatever. And I am fairly certain a 777 drinks Jet-A, rather than JP4.
The Asiana 777 still had probably 8-10 tons of fuel on board, even after a transpac flight from Incheon-Seoul. They have to have enough fuel to handle a holding pattern or flying to the alternate airport that their flightplan must designate.
Did they have to call out when they were done so the next person can take their turn?
Did people have to complete the act of standing up then reach back down or could they not do that at the same time either? Imagine yourself in that scenario... it's right there in front of you and you decide to leave it instead. Really, 1 second and you weren't in the aisle yet. People are doing some serious monday-morning quarterbacking by the book here. Overhead luggage you definitely leave, I'm not debating that.
Your plane just crashed, it's pandemonium in the airplane, people are trapped in their seats, most are desperately trying to get out, the cabin is filling up with smoke, flight attendants are urging you to get out. here is a picture of what it looks like, minus the smoke and all the people trying to get out:
And YOU, in your infinite wisdom are going to bother to pick up your hand held luggage instead of vacating the airplane ASAP and having your hands free to possibly help other injured or trapped passenger!!!!!
You did not think this true, did you?
And YOU, in your infinite wisdom are going to bother to pick up your hand held luggage instead of vacating the airplane ASAP and having your hands free to possibly help other injured or trapped passenger!!!!!
You did not think this true, did you?
Again too much quarterbacking. You don't know what you're going to do in a given situation and neither do I until it happens. I'm saying I'm inclined to pick up my backpack full of expensive stuff if I know it's right there in front of me, rather than looking at it and deciding to leave it. It's not bulky like luggage and it takes literally 2-3 seconds. Infinite wisdom? Dramatic much?
Again too much quarterbacking. You don't know what you're going to do in a given situation and neither do I until it happens. I'm saying I'm inclined to pick up my backpack full of expensive stuff if I know it's right there in front of me, rather than looking at it and deciding to leave it. It's not bulky like luggage and it takes literally 2-3 seconds. You are not going to change my mind arguing 2-3 seconds which is what it takes to also get up and out of the seat. Infinite wisdom? Dramatic much?
When trapped in a burning tube with hundreds of other people, my only priority is to get out. Aviation experts tell me the best and fastest way to do this is by leaving everything behind and getting to the nearest exit as fast as possible. I'll take their advice over yours.
Again too much quarterbacking.
ok! I didn't give any advice.
ok! I didn't give any advice.
btw, here's amateur video of the actual crash - didn't see it posted.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=3186257b=facebook
That is some flip, guessing a few stories up in the air. Contrary to the computer animations which had it just sliding along to a stop. Amazing no ball of fire after it came back down.
You're telling people it doesn't' matter if they take extra time to take their carry on luggage with them in the event of a crash.
I, aviation experts and most people with common sense will tell you that every seconds count when evacuating a burning airplane and that taking your belonging with you will add time to the evacuation process.
Extra time as if it's really a big deal to grab a pack in front of you... lol. Christ man it's as quick as touching your shoe and getting up. You're ridiculous with this "but everybody says" bs. Keep going, but I think there's only so many ways you or I can say the same thing. Go.
Yea the CNN animation was so far off it was LOL AND they had the exclusive video!. After a 10hr trip it was probably low on fuel, that might be the only reason there was no fireball, the fact that it slammed into the wall hard enough to rip off the entire tail, cartwheel, and remain mostly intact is a testament to a very solid design..
I spoke to a buddy of mine earlier and this is what he said
Although the ILS was OTS there is an LPV GPS approach to 28L that would have given them a glide slope indication if they had set it up. If it had been set up and displaying a glide slope the GPWS should have activated.