Do you think American passengers would have evacuated as timely/orderly as JAL 516 passengers during fire emergency?

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM would first form a committee to elect a subcommittee that would determine the most optimal way to deplane.

I disagree. I’ll tell you the best way. I went to school in Boston and DH is biglaw.

For equity reasons, we must all exit at the same time.

No, my husband is a Dr. so the right way is women and children first. That's what he tells all his patients.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s shocking to think that Americans would block the aisle in an evacuation to get their luggage from overhead, yet that is what they would do. Conversely other Americans are not confident or active enough to just push past. So we would have Doug from Omaha holding up the evacuation in the aisle because he MUST bring his bag, while everyone behind him just stands there looking dumb and not taking action.

I’m the FA from above. It’s not just Americans, Canadians are almost worse! Especially on Canadian-bound US-departing flights. It’s like they have something to prove. Certain Europeans tend to be pretty awful, too. Asian passengers are the most cooperative and well behaved pax.

Funny that Asians are great on planes but horrible tourists off the plane.

+1

OMG with camping out at the sites for Insta, in matching outfit hoards.

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I'm convinced that there should physical fitness requirements for the exit rows. Just on a flight where the passenger sitting next to the window of the exit row looked like they couldn't lift 5lbs, let alone a 30-lb exit door.

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I believe we would come together to get off the plane safely. Nobody is getting a carryon when a plane is filling with smoke.

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I imagine it would be something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO8N3L_aERg

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM would first form a committee to elect a subcommittee that would determine the most optimal way to deplane.

I disagree. I’ll tell you the best way. I went to school in Boston and DH is biglaw.

For equity reasons, we must all exit at the same time.

No, my husband is a Dr. so the right way is women and children first. That's what he tells all his patients.

No! Please do not do this!

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Anonymous wrote:I think so, but I happened to live in Hoboken when that plane landed in the Hudson, and I was just on a plane with a medical emergency (they said is there a doctor on board mid flight) and before landing they came on the announcement and said an ambulance is meeting us at the gate - everyone stay seated while the person with the medical emergency gets off first. And I seriously in my head thought, I wonder if everyone will stay seated - but literally every person on the flight stayed seated and silent while the person with the issue got off.

So now I have more faith!

NP. I have been on a similar flight where someone had a medical emergency and they were taken to a waiting ambulance when we landed. We all waited, of course we did.

This was year ago though. Everything has gotten worse since the pandemic. Have people not started to recover at all yet and return to civility?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM would first form a committee to elect a subcommittee that would determine the most optimal way to deplane.

I disagree. I’ll tell you the best way. I went to school in Boston and DH is biglaw.

For equity reasons, we must all exit at the same time.

No, my husband is a Dr. so the right way is women and children first. That's what he tells all his patients.

No! Please do not do this!

Why not? First class gets off first, then if there's time, steerage. This is a proven strategy.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe we would come together to get off the plane safely. Nobody is getting a carryon when a plane is filling with smoke.

Bot so sure, but I hope you are right. When we were boarding and people were taking too long with their carry on and their stuff, some of the passengers started yelling "let's GO!!!" to get them to move along. Some people have no qualms about trying to hold up the entire plane. Also, some people are selfish, stunted idiots whose parents did not love them, so they have to try to prove a point - what, I don't know.

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100% no

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe we would come together to get off the plane safely. Nobody is getting a carryon when a plane is filling with smoke.

Bot so sure, but I hope you are right. When we were boarding and people were taking too long with their carry on and their stuff, some of the passengers started yelling "let's GO!!!" to get them to move along. Some people have no qualms about trying to hold up the entire plane. Also, some people are selfish, stunted idiots whose parents did not love them, so they have to try to prove a point - what, I don't know.

*Not so sure,

Anyway, you would surprised how many grown adults are incapable of getting their sh&t together, and prioritizing what is important.

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Anonymous wrote:I think so, but I happened to live in Hoboken when that plane landed in the Hudson, and I was just on a plane with a medical emergency (they said is there a doctor on board mid flight) and before landing they came on the announcement and said an ambulance is meeting us at the gate - everyone stay seated while the person with the medical emergency gets off first. And I seriously in my head thought, I wonder if everyone will stay seated - but literally every person on the flight stayed seated and silent while the person with the issue got off.

So now I have more faith!

NP. I have been on a similar flight where someone had a medical emergency and they were taken to a waiting ambulance when we landed. We all waited, of course we did.

This was year ago though. Everything has gotten worse since the pandemic. Have people not started to recover at all yet and return to civility?

Right, but in these situations, there is only one person experiencing an emergency. In a whole-plane emergency, there are going to be a lot of people who think they are more deserving of getting off the plane earlier than other people, or that their hand baggage is more important and therefore they are the exception to the group behavior standards that result in order. It's fairly easy to wait your turn when there's nothing but your own convenience riding on it and someone else is having an emergency.

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Anonymous wrote:I think so, but I happened to live in Hoboken when that plane landed in the Hudson, and I was just on a plane with a medical emergency (they said is there a doctor on board mid flight) and before landing they came on the announcement and said an ambulance is meeting us at the gate - everyone stay seated while the person with the medical emergency gets off first. And I seriously in my head thought, I wonder if everyone will stay seated - but literally every person on the flight stayed seated and silent while the person with the issue got off.

So now I have more faith!

Did anyone mumble about checking for an actual medical emergency?

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Anonymous wrote:Just reading the articles about how miraculous it was that 360+ passengers were evacuated so quickly. I wonder if an flight full of American passengers would fair as well? On one hand, the plane on the hudson was a good example of people cooperating and following orders. But that was 2018. It feels like people are behaving badly on planes post-COVID. I was on a flight yesterday and was mortified by how a passenger was talking to a flight attendant. Of course, I would hope an emergency situation would bring out best in us all, but could totally see US passengers pushing and/or trying to take luggage with them, slowing down the whole process. Thoughts?

hhttps://www.cnn.com/2024/01/03/asia/japan-airlines-collision-passenger-accounts-intl-hnk/index.html

We would all be dead for sure. We were talking about this yesterday.

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Anonymous wrote:My DH's friend was on the flight that Sully landed on the Hudson. He was sitting in the very last row. He said the passengers were pretty calm and orderly, even as the plane started to fill up with water in the back. The passengers went onto the wings of the plane to be rescued.

Don't count out Americans in coming together.

They didn’t have the option of taking their carry-ons out with them. Who knows what might have happened if they did.

Also there were a lot of New Yorkers on that flight. They can be in your face about stuff but are the first to reach out a helping hand. The way people come together in citywide crises is incredible.