Quoting cedarjet (Reply 3):
It's crazy that the pax were held in the airport til 9.30pm. That is crazy. 12 hours? |
it was more like 7 hrs, but we were only really "held" for the first few hours while they sorted through passports, immigration, etc. We were in two rooms, then the police/immigration folks setup at the doorway of one of the lounges, anyone who had passports could line up and get processed. It was there that they captured our contact details in a notepad. After that, I think anyone that wanted could leave, but if we wanted our bags we had to wait. I had a few thousand dollars of equipment in my carry on (camera, lens, laptop, iPad, etc) so preferred to wait.
Quoting cedarjet (Reply 3):
I also think it's quite comical that LOT never even contacted you to apologise, let alone dump a gazillion frequent flyer miles into your Star Alliance account. Then again, I would fly them again but they aren't a great airline, Cathay Pacific they are not. |
same here...very surprised to not hear anything yet. I flew back with them at the end of that week and there was no recognition of the event.
- yes, no panic or screaming. a few gasps as we touched down, some clapping once we came to a stop, then it was quite calm on the way out. In my video, you can see everyone calmly strolling around until an emergency responded starts shouting as us to "get away from the plane!!!" After the event, some folks were visibly shaken, others crying quietly, others just taking it all in - but all seemed very calm.
Quoting eksath (Reply 7):
There is a class action lawsuit in process for this event according to my current understanding. (John is not part of it.) |
That is my understanding as well - at least one fellow passenger I have contact may be part of this, but I am not.
Quoting transaeroyyz (Reply 8):
So the pilot announcement was only stating it will be a emergency landing, not including it will be a belly landing, gear stuck. Would that create panic of the passengers? Maybe, but I would've have liked to know the full scale of the situation, like not to use the over the wing exits as friction of engine contact could ignite a fire. |
Agreed - there might have been more panic in response to "we're landing without wheels" vs "technical difficulties". Once we came to a stop, it was a good 5-10 seconds before the FAs told us to evacuate. I understand the flight attendants kept folks from evacuating over the wing (even though the slides were deployed) - only the fore/rear exits were used.
