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Old 4th Jan 2013, 13:38
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Overhaed bins falling open on touchdown. Not a very good safety impression.
I flew on a Vladivostok Air Tu-204 last year, and the overhead bins fell open on touchdown. The cabin crew didn't appear in any rush to fix it and it almost seemed like a normal occurrence. I guess the latches aren't very secure.

My video shows almost exactly the same "second bang" as in the Red Wings video. I didn't capture the overhead bins in the video as the passengers next to me started glaring at me and I didn't want to get into trouble, so I continued to shoot out of the window.

I felt safer flying the Tu-154M than the Tu-204 - I had a splitting headache the entire flight as the air filtration seemed to be playing up, and the aircraft kept "swaying" side to side in the cruise, almost as if it couldn't keep the wings level. I'm avoiding the Tu-204 if possible in future, but I'd still fly it if there was no choice - I still consider it safe. Just not the most pleasant aircraft to be a passenger on.


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