Sheremetyevo Superjet 100 in flames

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Originally Posted by anotheruser

I would agree with that if it were true.

There have been so many evacuations delayed due to passengers grabbing their overhad luggage in which by pure luck everyone survived. Many have warned for years that this is a disaster waiting to happen. Now we've had the disaster and people start saying "but it's just one case".

The logic behind that is: For years we've made the experience that overhead luggage is a safety threat in evacuations, but people always said, well it's just a theoretical threat because so far nothing really bad has happened. Now we've had the really bad thing happening, but people say, well it's just one case. How many such cases do we need? When it's happened a hundred times, people will say, why bother, we're used to it?

Surely over the decades there has been enough wailing and gnashing of teeth over this and the airline industry needs to get a grip.

I would suggest that all airlines be required to fit an emergency overhead luggage locking system to prevent evacuating passengers accessing the lockers and fatally delaying emergency exit.