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Japan air incident

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Fordian · 02/01/2024 22:20

Gosh! All 379 on the A350 survived. What a miracle.

RIP the 5 on the coast guard aircraft.

However, I have a theory. A disciplined society. The passengers stayed put until directed, no one tried to take their hand luggage. The videos from inside the plane don't show a mad screaming scramble.

In a 90 sec window, they all got off alive.

I recognise that some 'only saw flames' out of the window, not the raging inferno that we then saw, though a burning engine would send me fighting for an exit!

Conversely, I was reminded of 1988ish, backpacker/tourist white water rafting on a river in Queenstown, NZ. A local backpacker mag had an article aimed at the river guides, about the difference between a raft of Kiwis upturning, and one of the omnipresent Japanese tourists of that time. It said that the Kiwis will try to save themselves, they'll strike for the shore; the Japanese will be more passive and will await rescue as they bob downstream through the rapids.

This cultural difference in approach probably saved them.

But full credit to the crew, of course, who did the directing.

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