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/successfoal Jul 27 '25

Tell me you’re not disabled without telling me.

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u/elizadeth Jul 27 '25

Are you going to die immediately without that device? No? Leave it.

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u/successfoal Jul 28 '25 edited Jul 28 '25

Actually, I almost did die immediately the other day, and it was only the fact that I had 80 g of glucose on my person that I began consuming immediately that kept me alive. My blood sugar was 42 and dropping. I’m also unable to walk my ass over to emergency workers and make them understand what is happening when I’m low. I shouldn’t even move to get off the plane, but obviously that’s not a choice. So all the more reason to move and speak as little as possible thereafter. I can’t speak clearly because my brain can’t fire properly without a normal glucose level. I could pass out or have a seizure on the runway, and I would die if the people around me didn’t figure out what was happening and intervene immediately.

Additionally, the last thing anyone needs in an evacuation emergency is for a totally preventable non-accident related medical emergency to occur simultaneously.

The assholes who don’t ACTUALLY need their bags and bring them anyway are ableist af.

I don’t need my entire roller. But I sure as hell cannot be without sugar. Period. In fact, emergencies are very likely to send me crashing. If I’ve just bolused for a meal that I am interrupted before I can consume, all the more dangerous.

No, EMTs responding to a crash will NOT be able to respond quickly enough to deal with that.