Originally Posted by
parabellum
Trained professionals who have every bit as much concern for their own safety as they do for their passengers.
With some notable, heroic exceptions that we shouldn't forget.
"Miss Harrison was left alone to the task of shepherding passengers to the rear door and helping them out of the aircraft. She encouraged some passengers to jump from the machine and pushed out others. With flames and explosions all around her, making an escape from the tail of the machine impossible, she directed her passengers to another exit while she remained at her post. She was finally overcome while trying to save an elderly cripple who was seated in one of the last rows and whose body was found close to that of the stewardess. Miss Harrison was a very brave young lady who gave her life in her utter devotion to duty"
(from Jane Harrison's George Cross citation)