periksmoen
Well-Known Member
I saw this on CNN today.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/05/12/vo.tx.plane.fire.ktrk
What really struck me about the video is that while most everybody was evacuating in a quick, orderly fashion, one guy stops to first send his briefcase down the slide, then he slides down and then stops and sits at the bottom of the slide to gather up his briefcase and paperwork that fell out. Another 10 people probably could have evacuated in the amount of time he spent blocking the slide so he could take his briefcase with him.
Fortunately, the fire was contained and nobody was hurt/killed, but I'd be pretty pissed off if I was stuck in a burning airplane while some yahoo took his time to make sure he had all of his important paperwork.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/05/12/vo.tx.plane.fire.ktrk
What really struck me about the video is that while most everybody was evacuating in a quick, orderly fashion, one guy stops to first send his briefcase down the slide, then he slides down and then stops and sits at the bottom of the slide to gather up his briefcase and paperwork that fell out. Another 10 people probably could have evacuated in the amount of time he spent blocking the slide so he could take his briefcase with him.
Fortunately, the fire was contained and nobody was hurt/killed, but I'd be pretty pissed off if I was stuck in a burning airplane while some yahoo took his time to make sure he had all of his important paperwork.