Originally Posted by stevekoe
I am not being facetious, nor am I trying to be disagreeable. But, I have been flying for a few years and always wondered what the safety issue was that is involved with the seat not reclining during takeoff and landing. I have never been so bold as to ask a flight attendant -- as I would just assume that I would get a canned answer.
Clearly, some of the folks here seem to think that the pre-takeoff recline is of the most significant consequence from the OP. One poster said something about putting people's life in danger?
It was I, who wrote about putting other peoples life in danger. What I meant by that, and as far as I understand it, this is also the reason why the seats have to be in an upright position, was; when your seat is down it is harder for the people behind you to get out. Therefore, if there would be an emergency, the whole cabin dark and perhaps with panicing people, rasing their seats is probably not on anyone's mind. So the reclined seat could hinder people from getting out in an emergency situation.
I don't know that I have ever seen news reports of airplane passengers killed because their seats were not in the upright position.
Maybe this is because the FAs usually make sure the seats are up?
