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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
On one flight, I was told to put away my knitting. The flight attendent said she had been poked with knitting needles before (her own?). I said having a type A personality sitting there with nothing to do was more of a concern. Someone handed me a magazine.
How asinine. My knitting needles are in my lap. If she is worried about them flying around in the case of a crash, there are lots of worse things to ban. Purses?
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actually, when i was on a plane whose right engine caught fire and we had to make an emergency landing, EVERYTHING got put away. in the 10 minutes we took to get to an international airport with a long enough runway (o'hare's wasn't long enough, we had to go to Detroit), the stewardesses stashed even most stuff that had been under the seats in the overhead bins.
it made sense: we landed hard and fast. very fast. and couldn't use the engine reverse thrust to slow us. we were all pretty knocked about, but we landed ok. i could easily imagine loose stuff being tossed about -- and that was a successful landing, not a crash, which i'm sure would be a lot worse.
thankfully, there was less resistance to the stewardess' actions on the plane than there is in this thread.
