@fast89pony With no protective gear and no fire fighting equipment, nothing to extinguish a fire that large and voracious with, how far do you think a bystander would get before they find themselves on fire, could even endure the heat being put off by such a fire which would be tremendously intense, trip or fall over debris, cut, remove or maneuver their way through very hot twisted and bent metal and other materials- again with no tools/help/equipment to do so, be able to avoid collapsing areas of the plane falling on them, or be overcome by toxic smoke fumes and die? How would you suggest that they just run into the fire and possible fuel explosion and start trying to extricate someone who is already dead or dying? Does that really make sense to you? At best, you could look around the perimeter for someone possibly thrown free of the crash. It's sadly, a helpless and desperate situation. You'd be better off getting/rounding up others near the scene and getting them and their vehicles out of the way so that rescue/firefighters can gain access to the crash scene and away from any possible explosion or out of and away from any nearby structures which may also catch on fire.
And many people have died tried trying to do this and saved no one. Are you comparing a car fire to this fire? Really? When people are saved in burning plane, it it because the plane may be much larger and/or the fire has not yet reached the people saved, they extricated themselves, were extricated by fellow pax and/or crew, the fire has not yet grown to the proportions that you see in the video, firefighting crews in close proximity arrived immediately and began to put the fire out and other factors. The odds are that you are not going to successfully extricate anyone from a fully engulfed fire if you are just a bystander again with no help and no equipment/gear. This all sounds like a great idea in theory until you are actually standing in front of such a situation. And in this case which is often the scenario, the surrounding area (grass/brush/twigs etc.) was also on fire. Do you think that trained and fully equipped, trained firefighters just rush into burning structures/vehicles first?
