Why do you grab your bag when running off a burning plane?

And it surely does not get more intense than it was for the passengers on Aeroflot Flight 1492 last Sunday. “I don’t know how the mind works in these situations,” Mikhail Savchenko, an Aeroflot passenger who took a video after escaping the plane that showed people carrying luggage, wrote on Facebook. Watching from the safety of your phone, as an armchair disaster observer, it’s easy to think you would never act so unwisely, but grabbing for possessions is more common than one might think.

Source: www.nytimes.com