I'm in no way excusing what they did but under a stressful situation such as this people don't think. It's a very non-normal situation and people have a paradigm, or set way of doing things, when they leave an aircraft (taking things with you). I don't think it's isolated to a fire evacuation of a plane. It's likely a pattern of other evacuations also.
There is talk about locking overhead lockers after this incident. It highlights the importance of limiting the size of carry-on luggage. Are cabin crew trained to forcefully tell the passengers to ditch their bags at the door prior to exit?
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