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FEATURE EVACUATION
Leave That Bag!
Taking your luggage with you in the event of an emergency evacuation is really not a great idea
By Geoffrey Thomas & Jerome Greer Chandler
ThE RECENT ENGINE INCIDENT AND pressure compressor.
savage fire involving a British Airways After coming to a stop on the runway, a
Boeing 777-200ER operating Flight fire developed on the left hand side of the
BA2276 from Las Vegas to Gatwick on aircraft between the no. 1 engine and the
ABOVE: Passengers often September has brought into sharp focus fuselage.
leave reason behind during passengers compromising not only their The crew radioed a Mayday and
emergency evacuations where safety and that of fellow passengers by initiated an evacuation of the aircraft. Fire
every second is precious.
Pictured passengers escaping insisting on taking their carry-on baggage services responded quickly and had the
from British Airways Flight with them. fire under control shortly afterwards.
BA2276. The Boeing 777- Scenes of passengers wandering away The 777 sustained substantial damage
200ER suffered an engine from the burning 777 carrying, dragging or and there were two minor injuries during
failure in the number 1 engine
wheeling their carry-on baggage flashed the runway evacuation.
OPPOSITE LEFT: Asiana around the world to the horror of aviation Passengers have died in previous
Airlines Flight 214 caught safety commentators. accidents because they could not get
fire after landing short of The flight pushed back at 16:00 of the aircraft fast enough because too
the runway at San Francisco
International Airport local time and taxied to runway 7L for many were not following very clear crew
departure. The take-off commenced at instructions to leave everything behind.
OPPOSITE RIGhT: Image 16:12 and within about 12 seconds the Evacuation standards of all passengers
taken by a passenger on cell- Captain aborted the take-off due to an off in 90 seconds are based on only half
phone capturing the moments
after the Asiana Airlines engine failure in number one engine the exits in use and travellers not taking
Flight 214 accident due to failures and breaches of the high their carry-on off with them.
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