Originally Posted by
Paul Lupp
A much faster way of reuniting passengers with checked baggage would help - I have in the past waited longer than the duration of the flight for the cases to arrive on the conveyor, also if there is an incident, some sort of assurance that the hand luggage would be offloaded promptly and returned to passengers would help, in a similar vein. The thought that the plane may be impounded for days or weeks, along with all the hand luggage whilst investigations are carried out is no doubt a source of anguish to many passengers
The AAIB report states that "The majority of [the passengers] were able to travel to Vienna on a replacement aircraft later that evening". Given that the event happened at 2020 local time, that would suggest they were reunited with their hand baggage fairly quickly in this instance.