Originally Posted by
HDQDD
Not correct. You are supposed to "follow crew instructions". It's actually illegal not to follow crew instructions, or so they say.
I very much doubt there was any crew order to 'keep sitting where you are' after such a crash. The pilots themselves were likely wetting their pants as they came very, very close to dying and they saw it more so than anyone else.
Most people just kept sitting like sheep too paralyzed to do anything unless told what to do. What I - and some others - are saying is that we would act even there were no instructions. If the crew said - don't exit from this side - I would not. However, I would not wait after the aircraft had been structurally damaged in the way it was.
Originally Posted by
HDQDD
This wasn't a "fiery crash" where the airplane broke into pieces.
The lack of fatalities seems to have minimized the severity of the crash in the minds of some. One entire wing was sheared off! The plane was 50ft from going down into the bay!
Originally Posted by
HDQDD
Reports I've seen were that the fuel leak was less than 1 gallon per minute.
This was established well after the fact. There is NO way the pilot could have know what the leakage rate was. And even then, this is a ridiculous argument. What do you think would happen if you threw a match into gas dripping out of a can drop by drop?
The passengers are extremely lucky that they came out of this unscathed. A swerve to the right may have ended in catastrophe of a much bigger proportion. I find it unbelievable that you think this was not a major crash!