Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
There might be a passenger who urgently needs some special medication or medical device in the overhead bin.
Doubt there would be time to access it after a crash and while evacuation has been announced anyway.
Don't know about EK, however on the few occasions that I was called to assist a sick passenger on an aircraft , the medical equipmemt was in a separate bin (I.e no luggage stowed in the same bin)