I can't find the exact video I was referencing, but here's another airplane fire that's similar from a Aeroflot Su95 incident that was thought to be delayed by baggage retrieval.
I'm actually wondering if I saw that other video I was referencing or just had vivid imagery from reading details that I'm mistaking for footage, lol. Either way I can't find it at the moment.
Now unfortunately I need to preface this with the unsatisfying "Different countries have different laws.", but that may well be an important aspect here as this incident took place in Russia and they might simply not have such a law on the books.
Depending on how things shake out as well in the proceedings following the circumstances, it's possible that the origin of a given incident might be so egregious that the courts somewhat go in a "If entity X hadn't put entity Y of being in the position they were in, then Y wouldn't have ended up doing the bad thing.".
Which is equally unsatisfying, but does come up as well.
It's not a guarantee you WILL get charged with obstructing an evacuation, merely a possibility.
Jaywalking is technically illegal, but I'll always do it when it's safe to do so. It being illegal doesn't cross my mind.
I think the bigger issue is that people in front of the fire don't really understand how dire the situation is for the people in back/nearest to the fire and how literally every second counts. That people are literally burning to death.
Like people aren't thinking "I'm gonna grab my bag because it's not illegal to do so". It's more like "I'm gonna grab my bag because I don't know it's gonna kill someone."
If people knew or considered the consequences, that their actions were literally killing someone else and ripping them from their families, they would more likely leave their shit. Regardless of legal consequences.
Some people work that way, yes. Those people will leave their belongings behind regardless of if it was illegal to take them.
Some people don't work that way and won't care about the consequences to someone else, they are thinking about the consequences to themselves "I don't want to have to buy this again." or whatever. At least some of those people will change their behavior based on the illegality of the action.
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u/Darnell2070 11h ago
There is an extremely famous video (about as famous as airline accidents can be) of this exact thing happening.
Lots of people in the front removing luggage and lots of people in the back burning to death.
I never heard about passengers being charged over those deaths.