the CAA recommended a maximum 5 kg limit as cabin baggage was responsible for most of the fatalities in the passenger cabin
Why was this never enforced? It makes me quite nervous to see the size and apparent weight of some of the luggage some people carry on. 23kgs is frankly ridiculous!
I think airlines/handling agents should be a bit braver and remove more oversize/overweight handluggage at the gate, to be returned immediately on disembarkation, as per many of the smaller regional aircraft types. The safest place for heavy and hard objects is the hold in my opinion.