An aviation expert scolded the behavior of passengers who evacuated a burning airliner at Denver International Airport - with their luggage in tow.
"They’re endangering themselves,” the expert, Steve Cowell, told Fox 31. “They’re endangering the lives of the other passengers. At best, they’re going to stumble out of that airplane and not as quickly as they would have if they didn’t have that carry-on luggage.
"They’re possibly going to get injured," Cowell said. "They are impeding the evacuation because we don’t know if that airplane is going to be fully engulfed in flames.”
Five people were injured Saturday when a mechanical problem and fire forced Americans Airlines Flight 3023 to Miami to abort takeoff at DIA.
"Anything that you can do to get off that airplane, get away from that airplane as far as you can after you evacuate,” Cowell told Fox 31. “You’re going to help save your life, and you’re going to help save the lives of those around you.”
The worse-case scenario came to fruition here. On July 11, 1961, United Air Lines Flight 859 skidded off a runway at Denver's old Stapleton Airport. Eighteen people died in a fire that followed.
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