The plane was less than a hundred meters above the ground!
Although the pilots were desperately pulling up the nose, the plane's rate of descent had not slowed!
At the critical moment, Dong Xuebin refused to sit there and wait for death. He tore off his oxygen mask, flung it away, unfastened his seat belt with one hand, and sprang from his seat. He stepped on the back of the seat in front of him and lunged forward. The violent shaking bore down on him from all directions. Dong Xuebin staggered and fell, slamming hard into the cabin aisle. With a thunderous roar, the plane lurched, sending him rolling across the floor.
"Sit down! Get back to your seats!"
"The plane is making an emergency landing! Nobody move!"
The two flight attendants shouted at Dong Xuebin and several others who were also trying to open the emergency exits.
Dong Xuebin ignored them completely. Clutching his aching arm, he scrambled up and sprinted forward!
More than a dozen people acted just like Dong Xuebin. None of them believed the emergency landing would succeed. As they watched the ground draw closer and closer, they all felt that jumping from the plane was their best option. Yet even from nearly a hundred meters up, their chances of surviving the jump were slim. Given the plane's downward momentum and the surrounding air currents, jumping out would be like plummeting from a skyscraper dozens of stories high. Unless they entered the water perfectly vertically, hitting the sea would be no different from hitting concrete. Even if they somehow managed that one-in-ten-million vertical entry, survival was still far from certain. But... there was at least some hope, wasn't there?
Bang! Bang!
A Black man rammed the emergency exit with his shoulder like he had gone mad!