Is you bag worth your life

smurfjed

Once again we see an aircraft that was evacuated and the people standing outside are holding their bags and coats.

Is your bag really worth your life?



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6762267/Stansted-Airport-closes-passenger-jet-evacuated.html

Omackeral

smurfjed wrote: »

Is your bag really worth your life?

Depends. My Monday morning one maybe not but my Saturday night bag is a different story.

Ficheall

Depends - if I were evacuating a plane, I'd have my laptop bag at my feet, and bringing that or my jacket certainly wouldn't slow me down any more than waiting for the person in front of me. That could mean I have a way of contacting people/money/passport/my work stuff etc. when I disembark. Luggage in the overhead would, of course, be left.

willowthewisp

Isn’t the likelihood that you’ll move onto another plane, and more than likely the plane will be ok so you’ll be forced to go back and collect your bag anyway. If the bag is at hand, just take it.

There might be a Snickers in it to fend off the hunger pangs!

freshpopcorn

A bag for life has a life to!

Tokyo

smurfjed wrote: »

Once again we see an aircraft that was evacuated and the people standing outside are holding their bags and coats.

Is your bag really worth your life?

For me it probably would depend on the meaning of the word 'evacuated' though.

Are we talking 'evacuated' as in ****ty landing and the plane skids to a stop? Or evacuated' as in "oh my word, is that wing on fire?"

If it's the former, then I'd probably grab my go bag and/or jacket if they were within arms reach, particularly if I thought I'd be freezing my arse off at night in a field beside the runway.

I appreciate that there are rules in place for these things, and the reasoning behind them (expediting complete evacuation), but reading the article, the issue seems to have been engine failure on the runway prior to takeoff. Was there an immediate risk to all onboard? Or were they evacuated as per procedure?

Ariadne

I suppose it's like when the fire alarm goes off at work, you just assume it's a false alarm and grab your stuff even though you know you're not supposed to. Now if it really seemed to be an emergency evacuation I'd obviously leave my things behind but like someone else said sure you could be waiting behind someone to get off anyway.

I thought this was going to be a psa about getting mugged

As everyone else said depends on how/why the plane was evacuated

smurfjed

As everyone else said depends on how/why the plane was evacuated

How would you know the reason?

Avatar MIA

In a real survival situation it's those that would crawl over their own mother that survive.

In this case stooping to pick up your Chanel or Hermes seems reasonable.

Deagol

smurfjed wrote: »

Once again we see an aircraft that was evacuated and the people standing outside are holding their bags and coats.

Is your bag really worth your life?



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6762267/Stansted-Airport-closes-passenger-jet-evacuated.html

My guess has always been that in the moments after the aircraft stops, most people would end up standing up waiting for the doors to open, the slides to deploy and the people in front of them to start moving(?) If that's actually the case what harm if people grab their personal items - especially if the emergency isn't immediately life threatening?

I would have thought that in the case of a serious emergency most people would panic and forget personal items in the rush to survive

Avatar MIA

smurfjed wrote: »

How would you know the reason?

The flames licking at you ankles.
The people fervently praying.
Those screaming "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!"
Water flooding into the plane.

All internationally recognised indicators.

begbysback

Depends whats in the bag, only if its critical stuff like defibrillator, oxygen machine, life saving medication or iphone

McMurphy

Read the thread title and all I could think of was chopper - sick balls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dazsB6m0ZrE

kneemos

Blew the airbags. That'll cost.

Melodeon

smurfjed wrote: »

How would you know the reason?

Avatar MIA wrote: »

The flames licking at you ankles.
The people fervently praying.
Those screaming "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!"
Water flooding into the plane.

All internationally recognised indicators.

Also, the cabin crew will be performing the internationally recognised Universal Distress Signal:

Vita nova

If a dandy highwayman held me up and said "your bag or your life" then I'd give him the bag but in an aeroplane emergency I'd probably take my bag if it didn't slow me down.

gozunda

"Is you bag worth your life"

'You bag'? - that's a bit rough OP. No need to call her that tbh

twowheelsonly

If it's on your lap or seat take it and go. Otherwise leave it behind.
People will say that it only takes them two seconds to grab their bag but in reality it's more likely to be four or five. Multiply that by 100 passengers and the poor fellas in the middle or at the back will have their arses well scorched in the event of a real emergency.
If someone in front of me in that situation is reaching into an overhead locker then I'm ploughing straight through them. No apologies.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20171221/p2a/00m/0na/019000c

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34191035