Originally Posted by
Mr Optimistic
From the BBC,
When flight attendants told passengers to brace for impact, Mr Bourman said he and his wife worried for the worst.
As you might, but for an engine failure?
Well, some pax have read too many tabloid papers and tabloid TV! I doubt there was time to explain that it was a bad failure and they were getting to a low altitude and would park up just as soon as possible.
When there is a helluva bang and the rubber jungle with emergency descent? Very few on board would be able to follow the sequence and feel comfortable. As we all know, flying is very safe. Whilst uncontained failures are rare, I think it's even more so to actually kill a pax with it.
If I had been onboard, I would have expected folks to be panicked and presuming they might die. I know that Ms PAXboy (not married!) would have been terrified and I would have had to do a lot of comforting during and after the fact. I think we need to be generous.