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Aeroflot Flight 1492 is a perfect example of this. Passengers were actively working to get carry-on bags down the emergency slide as 41 people were burning to d
by quasse 3y ago
Aeroflot Flight 1492 is a perfect example of this. Passengers were actively working to get carry-on bags down the emergency slide as 41 people were burning to death in the back of the plane.
- golergka 3y agoRussians are the very extreme example — we're much more individualistic and self-centered than Dutch, English, or Americans.
- ImAnAmateur 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_1492 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_1492 https://www.flightglobal.com/analysis/analysis-superjet-fire-puts-focus-on-evacuation-threat/132614.article https://www.flightglobal.com/analysis/analysis-superjet-fire... Made for interesting reading. I think that it's possible that one more life could have been saved without those carry-on bags. That's a responsibility the passangers and crew both share.
- tim333 3y agoThe Russians seem to have an unusual attitude to human life, currently illustrated by the tens of thousands being killed in Ukraine for no particularly good reason. The reaction seems to be >Putin urges Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-putin-women-eight-children-ukraine-war-b2455957.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-put... rather than avoiding it all by going home and having a cup of tea or some such.
- AndrewThrowaway 3y agoThese must be two extremes of cultures. Russian and Japanese must be the very opposites in almost every way.