1000% If anything else is so imminently needed to maintain the life of you or your loved ones while traveling, keep it in your/their pockets. Past this everyo

1000% If anything else is so imminently needed to maintain the life of you or your loved ones while traveling, keep it in your/their pockets. Past this everyone has some excuse of medical, dietary, sentimental, economic, etc reason to grab stuff out of their luggage. This contributes to loss of life. You have 60-90 seconds to evacuate a burning aircraft. This is 10-20x faster than a normal with-luggage deplaning. If you are fumbling around with luggage, you are a hazard to yourself and others. If you are evacuating a plane you are seconds to minutes away from a fleet of ambulances ready to whisk you away to a nearby trauma center. No existing medical condition is going to get you before the fire will.