would you take your carryon bag with you in an emergency on a plane?

It depends - if it was a massive fire or we landed in water, I'd probably leave it behind. If I could safely take it with me, I would.

Jeez....let me thru' I need my caftans and earrings. Miserable bit*hes, think of others. Your life or your trinkets.

[quote]“Bags can block the aisles, damage the slides or even trip someone,” said Andy L., a flight attendant who has been working domestic flights for one year (he asked to change his name for privacy reasons related to his job).

Not to mention bag surfaces can become scuffed and scratched in the mayhem!

I would punch whomever next to me was taking their carry-on with them, and leave them to die in the flames.

Rules are rules.

I'd probably grab the personal item stowed under the seat in front of me.

I know you're not supposed to - and there were videos of the plane disembarkment last week that people were talking about.

But it was a fire from some battery in someone's luggage or other. Slightly different than an engine fire or an uncontained fire on the plane.

You're going to be in for a long time period of re-booking / other. Don't need to take considerably longer with getting your luggage. Who knows how long it took to do investigation and clear the plane before they could begin getting those bags.

Lastly - on board bags ARE NOT TAGGED and identified. So how the fuck they going to get it to you? Sorry to say - but people steal shit all the time.

I think the situation would "tell" you what to do. If the plane's on fire and it's a "move your ass or die" situation, of course I'd leave it behind. If we landed because some MAGA asshole was causing a scene, I'm grabbing my bag to smash it over his/her head.

I wouldn’t be so gauche to pull down a carryon bag from the overhead bin, but I would put the strap of my personal item over my head and leave with it. I put medication, passport, and valuables in my personal item bag and leave the replaceable miscellaneous and clothing items in the carryon.

As R1 said it depends on the emergency. I might grab something from the bag under the seat but probably wouldn't take the whole thing. You wouldn't be permitted to access the overhead compartments in an emergency.

I would grab my bag full of dildos and butt plugs!

[quote]But it was a fire from some battery in someone's luggage or other.

I thought batteries were on the list of items you either cannot take at all or must check in?

R10 - and if anyone tries to stop you or complains - just turn to them and say "THEY WERE MY MOTHER'S" as tears well up in your eyes.

Works every time.

R11 - it's for checked baggage only, IIRC. Because if a fire starts down there, nobody can notice or put it out.

Unfortunately, fires from phone and laptop batteries do happen. I remember in 2016 (?) when that new phone came out (I bought one) and there were multiple fires with the batteries. Can't remember the name of it - but Christoph Waltz did commercials for it.

Oh Galaxy Note 7 - that was it. People's cars caught on fire - it was terrible.

My friend had that phone, R13. She could barely pick it up it would get so hot. They just kept putting out software updates or something that didn't work. Didn't airlines do something about traveling with those? Somehow it seems like they did.

Putting aside, for the moment, the items under the seat in front of you does 120+ years of flight safety not mean anything to you? It's why you take your shoes off too. How would you feel if there were others behind you who could not evacuate as safely as you did because you don't want to endure the minor (really, it's minor) inconvenience of not having a fresh shirt to put on while you rebooked?

FAA rules state that you follow FA instructions at all times, especially during an emergency evacuation. Anyone who grabs their baggage slows the process down when survival may come down to milliseconds. Fine them and put them on a no-fly list. I don't care if you're carrying the Crown Jewels -- get off the damn plane.

Just something like medication and passport which would be in my purse under my seat anyway, not the overhead bin carryon.

Yes! I'd grab what I could. My stuff is probably more valuable than your miserable lives, especially if you're flying coach.

R15 - agreed if it is a life or death emergency - but as some stated above, the recent example at Denver was for smoke from an isolated battery fire.

However, it is best to trust procedures as you don't want to underestimate any danger - and most people cannot determine the severity in a crowded plane by just looking around.

On second thought, I take back what I said - you're 100% right. Nobody should be trying to assess danger levels - do as you're told and fine or arrest people who don't.

Definitely not if it's in the overhead bin. No one should be allowed to get anything there as it could cost precious seconds. Anything within your reach (e.g. under the seat) should be acceptable.

R15 = sky waitress.

If I were to slow down the people behind me it’s more likely because I’m recording the incident on my phone.

Carry on suitcase, no. Backpack, yes.

Depends on what I had in it. If nothing valuable then no, I'd leave it. If my medications were in it I would retrieve them if at all possible and leave the rest.

Pam Ann explains in it all in this safety demo.

Absolutely. It’s a Tumi. What are strangers’ lives compared to my stuff?

Of course.

I'd use it to knock the cunts and their crotchfruit out of my way.

Just like I have in the past.

I carry a backpack on the plane, it goes under the seat.

I was involved in 2 domestic emergency landings with commercial airlines; the backpack came with me as I threw myself on the emergency chute.

Under seat item. Yes.

Stored in overhead. No.

No, it would slow me down and having the strap on my shoulder might hamper me from pushing two-legged cattle out of my way.

I could get an emergency refill on crucial meds if we weren't allowed to recover our luggage for a day or more, and nothing else in my luggage would be all that important. I'd have my phone, tickets, boarding passes, and wallet on me, not in a bag.

At least ten years ago there was an incident where a plane had to make an emergency landing in Taipei, engine fire I think. Footage on YouTube of the passengers running away on the tarmac pulling giant wheelie bags.

Fuck no. I would never be that person.

I cant believe half of you bitches would take the bag. I would knock you fucking Birkin bag out of you r hands of you did that to me.

Or yes. I would make the person behind me my human suitcase.

But, but MINE is an LV!

[quote] How would you feel if there were others behind you who could not evacuate as safely as you did because you don't want to endure the minor (really, it's minor) inconvenience of not having a fresh shirt to put on while you rebooked?

I don’t give a fuck about others behind me. In an emergency, it’s everybody for themselves.

[quote] No, it would slow me down and having the strap on my shoulder might hamper me from pushing two-legged cattle out of my way.

In an emergency, you wouldn’t wear it like that. You’d put the strap around your neck and let the bag hang over your belly. On the slide, it would be on top of you.

If it’s not summer, I’ll have a coat or jacket with me, so I would keep it under the coat to shield myself from murmuring and disapproving glares.

R35 = dark triad.

A 400 pound woman trying to fit through an emergency exit is a far greater threat to the safety of other passengers than my under the seat bag. They are who we should be leaving behind.

Aww R38, Meghan McCain can't help it-she's big boned!

The backpack. I fully admit it's my male purse. Do women leave their purses behind? All my sisters have purses as big or bigger than my backpack.

I have my presciptions, a clean Tee and clean underwear along with a few other things. Maybe a book. Also my other phone and tablet.

My fat daughter shouldn't be flying anyway. The uneven ballast would cause an air disaster.

When pigs fly, r41.

You wouldn't have time, R32, since I'd be in front of you grabbing my Travel Pro from the overhead bin.

Depends. If it's a life threatening situation - no.

If it's simply evacuating the plane - probably. But I usually don't have a big rolling bag. I use a travel backpack these days which is only 40L, so relatively small.

Is your Travel-Pro more important than your life?

No, but it’s more important than your life.

I would take down any retard who is selfish enough to pull that stunt. Fist straight to the scrotum, shove them to the ground, step over them on the way to the emergency exit. I'm not burning to death because some cunt wanted to save his $400 laptop.

Nope, but then I don't take much in my carry on bag anyway because I don't wanna be that guy who causes issues at security by having his bag searched. I always have my wallet and phone in my pockets anyway so I guess they'd be coming with me.

But I know many would be reaching for their bags. Whenever we have fire drills at work we're always expressly told to leave everything at our desks and just leave, but of course when the alarm sounds, most people start rooting around for bags, keys, coats, etc. If there was a real fire, some of them probably wouldn't make it out alive.

On a pilots‘ forum there is a lot of discussion on this. The consensus is NOT to start a fight with a bag asshole because that would delay things further. Of course, they despise pax evacuating with bags.

I would follow the flight attendant instructions; I wouldn’t actually remove off my body something that was already on, though, I don’t think, since that would be counterproductive. In other words, if I had a fanny pack around my waist, I wouldn’t take the time to remove it, unless it was to get into the water without a life vest, and it was weighing me down, or if someone announced I should. The airlines are obliged to try to make it ok, even up to getting a locksmith so you can drive your car home when your keys are in the bottom of a river.

I don’t know that a purse or shoulder bag could be considered a carry on. Likely it’s already attached to you. Grabbing anything from underseat or overhead is too fucking time taking in an emergency.