Originally Posted by
Mk 1
Indeed great job from the cockpit both during and after the event.
Agreed!
However we are back to seeing the word 'hero' thrown about again. It was as much in Tammy's own interest as it was the rest of the passengers to get the airframe down in one piece. Heroism should be left to describe those who deliberately and selflessly risk their own lives to save the lives of others.
In this scenario, if the hole had been much larger and an entire seat with passenger was about to be sucked out, yet another passenger seated in a 'safe' part of the fuselage undid their seatbelt to hold the person from falling out - that would be heroic. They would be endangering their own life to save others.
Yet to be verified, but here's the report in NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/u...pgtype=article
“The top half of her torso was out the window,” he said. “There was a lot of blood because she was hit by some of the shrapnel coming off the engine after it exploded.”
Mr. Kraidelman said passengers and flight attendants struggled “to drag her back into the aircraft.” When they did, she was unconscious and seriously injured, and flight attendants and passengers tried to revive her. Upon seeing the scene, one flight attendant began to cry, Mr. Tranchin said.
“They were doing CPR on her and using the defibrillator while we were landing,” Mr. Kraidelman said. “They were working on her while everyone else had their oxygen mask on.”
Mr. Tranchin said that one of the passengers helping had at one point placed his lower back up against the opening in the plane, in an apparent effort to help with the compression. The man did this for the next 20 minutes, Mr. Tranchin said, adding that the man later told him that the pressure at his back had been extreme.'
Maybe all of that was unnecessary, but it sounds like not just flight crew but pax were trying to help out. If true, that deserves some credit.