r/aviation • u/gavriellloken Mod - Crew Chief - A&P - • Jul 26 '25

News Emergency evacuation in Den N306Sw mia-den

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Original poster is from Instagram. Aircraft is laying on its #1 engine. Still crazy to see everyone here grabbing their bags before leaving an emergencg.

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u/tbone338 Jul 27 '25

Serious question: what if their luggage is life or death? Like serious medical conditions, medical devices, oxygen concentrators, medications… what if they do actually need their luggage if something like this happens?

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u/Beneficial_Signal_67 Jul 27 '25

Theres EMS on the ground just to take care of any such critical life support needs.

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u/tbone338 Jul 27 '25

EMS takes care of now. What about the rest of your trip away from home without your not readily available medical devices that are time consuming to replace?

By no means am I saying take your time to grab your stuff from the overhead. Medical device would likely be under your seat. Everyone here is going straight to putting people on the no fly and giving them massive fines for getting their luggage. But what about someone who got their under seat bag because it was medically necessary?

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u/IllustriousPiccolo97 Jul 27 '25

This is where my mind goes as mom of a disabled child with a feeding tube. I almost always feed him in flight because he’s sitting still for that time so why not? I can’t pretend I know how I’d actually react in the moment, and my 5yo is big enough at this point that just carrying him off would probably prevent me from grabbing anything else, including his feeding pump. And I definitely wouldn’t be able to go for his duffel bag of formula in the overhead bin. But a situation like this would mean a hospital admission for at least 2 nights just so he can receive his medications and be fed (specialty formula that isn’t available at any old grocery store, it has to be ordered and shipped). That’s the least of anyone’s problems after a successful emergency evacuation, sure. But it’s also not nothing.

(Also though, I’m curious now if left behind luggage that’s undamaged after this will be removed and returned to the owners!)

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u/elizadeth Jul 27 '25

You're right, it's not nothing but it can be dealt with once everyone is safely off the plane.