Passengers Retrieve Luggage During Evacuations

In a 2018 British survey of 2,049 adults, 35% of air passengers said they would retrieve some or all of their belongings during an emergency evacuation involving an immediate threat, despite instructions to leave everything behind. When researchers also considered evacuations without an immediate threat, 77% said they would take possessions in at least one of the two scenarios. The Royal Aeronautical Society warned that luggage can obstruct evacuations, injure passengers, or puncture escape slides.

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