One rarley sees a causal factor that is involved in two very distinct events that led to multiple fatalities. The tether shut off the fuel and was probably the only reason nobody who had one on was able to escape. On top of that the Dart kit pull limitation comes out of the blue to further set them up. The tether issue of not being able to release might have ended up with folks thinking that the hook knife would have been fine if the ship had floated upright and people had a few minutes to unhook or cut the tethers. That would have been a mistake for obvious reasons. The whole thing of non-professionals using tethers and loose objects like phones creeps me out. With opened doors, a shoe, hat, phone or some other piece of jetsom brought onboard with a passenger is inviting disaster.
Last edited by roscoe1; 10th Dec 2019 at 21:29.