Definitely interesting. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed it

Im always amazed at the people that sit down and kick their shoes off before the airliner takes off. You might need those shoes. Good luck getting out barefoot.

I am amazed how many don't even tighten their seat belt. The flight attendants check that it is buckled but not that it is tight. I tell them they might as well not fasten it at all and what will happen. Some tighten, some don't.

On SW 737s I used to take the backwards seat on the front bulkhead. Air Force sat passengers backwards to save lives. Airlines would rather not pay medical bills. Cheaper if you die. SW didn't have the front bulkhead seat on my flight to ABQ in Aug.

When I was stationed at Elmendorf AFB many long years ago, a DoD chartered R&R airliner failed to make if off the runway--brakes had frozen, apparently, and because of the icy runway, the crew were flummoxed by the slow increase in speed and didn't react to it until it was too slow to fly and too late to stop. I don't recall that there were any serious injuries, but our office was one of many tasked with helping the passengers. (Incidentally, I thought that was silly, that the base JAG office was involved at all, but orders is orders).

So I was interviewing a retired MSgt, and he said that the toughest part of evacuating was getting past the idjets who were trying to get their carry-ons out of the overhead bins! With smoke filling the cabin, he found himself barking orders to leave things behind, but even that didn't work very well, since many of the passengers were military dependents and not active duty military. Luckily, whatever was causing the smoke didn't erupt into a major fire.

Basic rule: anyTHING can be replaced; your life can't.

Cary