the armrest slammed down and clonked little Kevin on the head, eliciting a wail of pain and sent him crying for a good few minutes.
hardly counts as "injury" though, does it?
Funnily rnough, I nearly added to my original post, "unless madam suffering a broken fingernail counts"
tut tut, silly me.
You warned the pax that the self-evident would happen, IE piss-poor armrests with no friction pads in the swivel would slam down on rapid deceleration . they learned that you weren't telling porkies. but injury?...Nah!- unless you count their bruised ego.
I don't argue with the suggestion that they should be down, but all the dynamic mass in the overheads is more of a worry than a tap from a relatively lightweight armrest pivoting 90-100 degrees.