Here’s that passenger video shot inside the Qantas jet with the massive damage in the fuselage. Amazingly, all seems remarkably calm. Note the flight attendants serving beverages (probably with alcohol in them) to the passenger as they wear their oxygen masks. An astounding event, with no one being seriously hurt. But apparently a few passenger vomited upon leaving disembarking. I’ve wanted to do that, too, after flying Delta for instance.
Here’s another video of the passengers after they’d exited the plane.
Amazing how calm and composed these people are.
My experience with people here in the States is that people think every little anomoly is a life-threatening event
A tribute to the british (aussie too) stiff upper lip. Like the Londoners after their terrorist subway bombing. Calm, cool, and collected.
I expected some indications of panic: hyperventilating, clasped hands, fervent praying, wild eyes, something.
Instead: “Why you sure can eat peanuts under that O2 mask! Here’s two packets.”
Well put, Underdog, and “stiff upper lip” also showed well in WWII during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz, when deliberate night bombing of civilian areas of London by the Luftwaffe failed to break the resolve of England. Not even the U-Boat Scourge and the V-weapons broke them, though they surely bent.
Of course, they had very inspiring leadership in Churchill. The last such world figures with that kind of charisma, IMHO, were Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. O, how far we have fallen!
Still, learning to have some backbone and developing one’s own stiff upper lip would serve many well, especially those who believe that the road to “world peace” is paved in cowardice, self-hate, submission, and subservience.
The oxygen masks help keep people quiet. Below 15,000 supplemental oxygen isn’t even required.