It makes perfect sense. It's well documented that people respond to emergency situations using fight/flight/freeze response. They couldn't leave the cabin, thus they remained seated until they could leave, and they notified the CMs when they pulled into the station.
They knew they were going to a point where they could quickly egress and make contact.
Being scared does not just manifest itself as wild panic, which seems to be the only response you would accept as being indicative of fear. Even making jokes doesn’t negate fear, as humor to help cope with tense situations is hardly a rare or new concept.
Most probably do. However, I can't say that's the case for the one who takes time to record the events on their phone. That's not freezing up.
The whole situation involves a known point of contact and a known point of egress.
True, though I, possibly wrongly, assumed that freezing implied, just that, standing, or sitting, and doing nothing, rather than composing and recording a video. Though she did commit the worst sin and film in portrait vs landscape, that could be a result of her panic and near frozen state vs her normal relaxed state.
It was obviously photoshopped!
Freezing up does not mean that an individual's thought process has stopped. It means that they aren't thinking clearly about the best course of action (eg alerting an authority) or thinking the scenario all of the way through. Posting on social media has become second nature for some people.
