People also don't respond rationally when in shock. When SQ006 crashed there were reports of passengers sitting in their seats frozen instead of evacuating. O

People also don't respond rationally when in shock. When SQ006 crashed there were reports of passengers sitting in their seats frozen instead of evacuating. On normal flights you spend hours or days before of being in the mindset to keep your valuables, medicine, money and identification on you (or within sight) at all times. Life will be miserable when you don't have those. A few minutes after landing they would have to collect them, and make sure to not to leave any behind before facing immigration etc. It is easy to see how in a state of shock, the instinct to what you have been doing and were concerned about kicks in. The cabin crew will shout at passengers to leave their stuff in an effort to overcome this. It should be noted that on this flight there are reports that some of the escape slides opened up inside the plane trapping the flight crew, hence there being fewer available at the beginning of the evacuation. Shock is a very strange condition. No matter how cool, calm, rational and effective we all think we will be, it isn't a predictor of what we will do.