Originally Posted by
gooselee
We all agree that in the absence of crew instruction (or when the crew is incapacitated), passengers must of course use their best judgment using the information they have. But I think there is a very clear advocacy in this thread for disregarding crew instructions altogether on the premise that some passengers might know better than the crew.
Where did I say otherwise? The first quote is not mine, so I cannot respond to that.
The second quote here was - I would NOT have waited - crew instruction or not.
In simpler English, I would not wait for crew instruction before acting. Silence from the crew would not keep me paralyzed. How does that imply I am disobeying the crew and/or denigrating their abilities? Why is silence from the crew to be interpreted as a call to inaction?
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Originally Posted by
gooselee
And I'm sorry, I'm going to trust the captain of the plane who is getting input from FAs throughout the cabin and any remaining instrumentation/alarms/radio communications over what one untrained passenger is observing about his/her immediate vicinity and outside their single window.
If you do not hear from the crew, how do you even know if the pilots are lucid and not incapacitated/dead? In this specific instance, they could have been severely wounded on impact with the fence. How do you know from 15 rows away whether the FA is even able to communicate with the pilots who sit behind closed doors?
Sitting on the window seat in the middle of the plane (over a few thousand gallons of kerosene I must add), you are incapable of ascertaining the state of the crew for a good period of time. You may prefer to sit around waiting for instructions but many may not.
Once again, I am not advocating defying crew instructions.
But you seem to be advocating paralysis till either the crew commands action or you have sufficiently established the incapacity of the crew. I respectfully disagree.