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Re:How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from... by quasse on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:02PM (#38857307)
Aeroflot Flight 1492 is a perfect example of this. Passengers were actively working to get carry-on bags down the emergency slide as 41 people were burning to death in the back of the plane.
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Re:How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from... by ImAnAmateur on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:36PM (#38857810)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_1492

https://www.flightglobal.com/analysis/analysis-superjet-fire...

Made for interesting reading. I think that it's possible that one more life could have been saved without those carry-on bags. That's a responsibility the passangers and crew both share.

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Re:How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from... by tim333 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @05:51PM (#38860915)
The Russians seem to have an unusual attitude to human life, currently illustrated by the tens of thousands being killed in Ukraine for no particularly good reason. The reaction seems to be

>Putin urges Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-put...

rather than avoiding it all by going home and having a cup of tea or some such.

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Re:How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from... by AndrewThrowaway on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @02:00PM (#38858213)
These must be two extremes of cultures. Russian and Japanese must be the very opposites in almost every way.
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Re:How Japan Airlines crew led 367 passengers to safety from... by golergka on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:09PM (#38857415)
Russians are the very extreme example — we're much more individualistic and self-centered than Dutch, English, or Americans.
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