http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/28/us/ohare-aircraft-incident/
All passengers evacuated in about a minute, but
Doesn’t every safety demonstration and safety information card say not to bother with baggage during an evacuation?
I have NEVER heard mention of leaving bags in the safety demonstrations on a plane.
Yes, but odds are the only people who actually read those are the ones who sit in the exit row. And very few of those people do. People still want to get their stuff, unless they are convinced they are going to die. Honestly, I’d probably even grab my cell phone and wallet if the airplane was on fire, but not my bags. People don’t think ahead, they just react.
They are not already in your pockets or otherwise attached to you?
@ucbalumnus You must be male. 
That’s funny, doschicos 
I would be hard pressed to fit my wallet and/or my cellphone in any of my pants or light jacket. I carry them in my hands. Women’s clothes are made with smaller pockets.
I just bought a lightweight silk DVF dress, and it has NICE pockets! There is hope for the non-malekind. But I always have my cell in my hand. FOMO. 
I would never even try to grab any carryons if there is an emergency. My arse is much more valuable than anything in those bags.
Perhaps a jacket or other item from http://www.scottevest.com/ might help.
Perhaps. However, I keep my wallet and cellphone in my flight bag, and generally do not wear a jacket when I’m sitting down. I certainly wouldn’t wear one in the cockpit.
I’m sitting here giggling at the thought of us all sitting on the same plane dressed in the same vest with 42 pockets each! We won’t need carryon as we’ll carry everything on us. Oh, and it’s on sale for the bargain price of $175. ;))
http://www.scottevest.com/v3_store/QUEST_Vest_Women.shtml
Funny, well at least we would know we’re all on cc!
Not a bad looking vest at all, however…I wear jackets because I’m cold. I don’t wear clothes particularly to put things in pockets. I just put all my stuff in my small bag, works perfectly unless I need to get out of a burning airplane quickly, or run from a terrorist. And in that case, the stuff just doesn’t matter that much.
@doschicos I can’t stop laughing at your comment, something about 42 pockets for each passenger is hilarious.
Good God, she must be kidding about the 42 pockets, or even close! If I have more than two pockets, I start losing where stuff is!
“It packs an astonishing 42 pockets to hold every last bit of gear, including a zippered compartment in the collar to stow the hood and giant back pocket to stash larger items.”
Yes, handsome vest. But I’d never remember what was in each pocket, would need a road map and then a place to stash that and some way to remember were that was. And frankly, if, when loaded, it made me look bulky, fergit it.
I have a new brand of jeans and the pockets are generous enough that, I swear, I lose my keys and cards in them.
I have no idea if I’d reach for my bag if the plane were in trouble.
Apparently the jacket comes with a map!
From the reviews on their website: “Each pocket has a little graphic next to it to indicate its purpose, and the attached glasses cloth has a map of the pockets printed on it…”
Can we get back to the fact that even if the safety demonstration doesn’t say so, to stop and get your carry on bag from an overhead bin while evacuating an airplane on fire is just stupid? You’re not only risking your own life but that of everyone else behind you.
Sure, its incredibly stupid. But none of us know for sure what we would do in an emergency. We might believe we do but unless it happens to you you have no idea. If just one person opens the overhead for their belongings does everyone start automatically doing it? Will you wait your turn or do you try to run over everyone else while desperately trying to escape? Are the people farthest from the exit more panicked than the others? Was everyone aware of the flames? When does mob mentality kick in?
I want to believe this has been studied specifically for airplanes and evacuations take this into account but who knows? Mob behavior has certainly been studied as has panicked behavior in groups of people.
Maybe a strong, authoritative, demanding deep voice is needed to get people to do what you need them to do. Maybe this certain voice can cut through the panic and get people to behave as you want them to. Maybe.
Spent a little time reading some research papers on emergency evacuations and it appears panic is usually confined to just a few people. The rest form a sort of community bond sometimes with help from stronger leaders that emerge quickly.
Interesting stuff,
I am impressed they got all the passengers off in a minute!
One passenger said the evacuation was “total chaos,” but video from the inside looked pretty orderly to me.