I'm sure a flight attendant or crew is about to lose their jobs.
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Nobody's going to lose their jobs. He would have been instructed at least 3 times during the descent, approach and landing phases through normal announcments (the ones the self loading cargo sheeple ignore) to fasten their belts. The flight attendants do a pretty good job of looking around for seatbelts but with some passengers masticated food storage and processing organs hanging out well over their belts it can be hard to see if someone is wearing it or not. It happens on every flight where some self important sweetheartbag doesn't put it on or clicks it off as soon as the airplane turns off the runway with a X number of minute taxi to the gate to stand up and grab their stuff out of the overhead bin. This behavior should be met with a whack in the head.
That said the fact airlines charge baggage fees these days contributes to the overheads being stuffed to the gills with bags that would normally be checked through. Anyone who has flown within the last year or so has noticed how in the effort to keep the pennypinching airlines from getting 15 more of their hard earned dollars are stuffing their things into a rollerbag bursting at the seams. Often some people can't even put it in their overhead without assistance from other passengers or flight attendants. It doesn't take a geological event to open these overhead bins. Just a jolt will do the trick and with all the weight stuffed inside it's a wonder more incidents haven't made the news where things come falling out of the overheads. Heck on my second day of IOE in an airliner I made everyone immediately aware we had returned to terra firma by lowering DCA's field elevation a foot due to my excessively firm landing. Okay it wasn't that bad but it was firm enough to open a couple overhead bins but not require the airplane be inspected for damage. Let this be a lesson to everyone to wear your god-damn seatbelts when the sign is on and leave it on until you get to the gate.
