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Originally Posted by NightCargo  If you call an abort, and the PF (assuming the Capt) slams on the brakes, you are gonna end up part of the instrument panel. Now, if you end up incapacitated due to slamming your head off the glareshield, you have a first hand lesson on the reason for the seatbelt in the first place. |
I'm surprised you are the first one to bring that up. If we continue and we crash, I'll probably end up getting seriously injured or killed because I don't have my seatbelt on. But if we abort while I don't have my seatbelt on, again I'll probaly be injured. Now the chances of us crashing are pretty slim, so I'd go with that as being the safest option rather than the abort which will almost certainly lead to me being injured and puts the rest of the passengers at risk as well.
There is a difference between the letter of the law and intent of the law. The letter of the law may state that we must have our seatbelts on. But the intent of the law is to increase safety. If in this case continuing the takeoff is safter than aborting, common sense tells you that safety takes precedence over the law. That's how I would explain it in my interview also.