WATCH: Passengers Completely Screw Up Evacuating From an Airplane

If I'm ever on an aircraft that needs to evacuate, I will have little to no hope of survival if most of my fellow passengers are Americans. The complete disregard for the safety of others or the expeditious flow to get out of the airplane is astounding.

This video that was posted over the weekend shows an American Airlines airplane that was evacuated due to a passenger's laptop catching on fire under a seat. In the video, you can see passengers are trying to reach for their baggage and take it with them. All while the flight attendants are pleading with them to move to the exits and leave their stuff behind.

Every person on that airplane that tried to bring their belongs with them should feel ashamed and embarrassed for doing so. I'm not sure how much more clear the safety video and the flight attendants instructions can be, do not take your belongs with you.

Not only because it takes extra time, but it could potentially rip the evacuation slide and injure other passengers. There should be fines and expulsion from flying this sort of behavior.

Airplanes are regulated to the number of seats they can carry by the number they can evacuate in 90 seconds. For example, the A380 was able to evacuate over 500 passengers in just over 78-seconds. If this was an American Airlines flight, I doubt that they would be able to get half that in the same amount of time.

I don't blame American Airlines for their passengers problems. I blame the passenger mindset that only cares about themselves and not the people around them. Nothing is more important than the life of an individual, but to some selfish passengers that's not the case.

While this evacuation didn't seem that dire, it still highlights that if there was an actual emergency with a US-based airline, I would have little hope of everyone making it out safely.